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Wednesday, June 6, 1973

ACCOMMODATION FOR ALL DOMESTIC RESIDENTS

All the domestic residents in the area in Ngau Tau Kok due to move

out before June 12 to make way for the construction of the main Mass Transit

Depot will be accommodated, a government spokesman said today.

One hundred and nineteen families comprising 538 people have been

living in the area. Of this total, 73 families comprising 370 people have

been given accommodation at the Lam Tin Estate, The rest, 46 families

comprising 168 people, have been offered accommodation in licensed areas.

Seventy-seven of the 148 industrial undertakings are eligible for

resettlement and they have been allocated government factory units, mostly at Kwai Chung. A special co-ordinating group, comprising representatives from

various government departments concerned has been set up by the Housing

Department to assist factory operators affected by the clearance to find

suitable alternative sites.

In accordance with government policy, those undertakings which were established on the site before 1966 and which were then under 5,000 square feet of working area are eligible for the allocation of government factory

units.

Eleven of the 29 shop-keepers in the area have been found to be eligible for assistance and ex-gratia sums amounting to about $116,563 will

be paid to them.

/Officers