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Monday, September 17, 1973
CLEARANCE OFERATION IN CHAI WAN POSTPONED
which was The clecriace operation at the Chai Wan licensed area,
originally scheduled for later this month, has now been postponed to early
November,
A Housing Department spokesran said this was necessary because the new licensed area which is being built to take in the illegal squatters involved in the clearance would not be ready until some time next month.
The clearance involves some 780 structures, of which about 230 are
illegal.
About 400 eligible families, comprising more than 2,100 people,
have been offered public housing accommodation.
"Many of then have already noved to their new homes in Ho Man Tin,
Sau Mau Ping or Lan Tin estates," the spokesman said.
About 1,100 others, many of them fishermen, who have been squatting illegally on the outskirts of the Chai Wan licensed area, will be accommodated
in the new licensed area being built in the vicinity.
The clearance vill make available land for building a public
housing estate which will provide homes for 16,000 people upon its completion
in 1976.
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