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Wednesday, November 21, 1973
SITE IDENTIFICATION EXERCISE FOR FIRE VICTIMS
A site identification process to determine the eligibility of
the people who lost their homes in the squatter fire at Kowloon Bay last
Thursday night was carried out smoothly today (Wednesday),
Representatives of 429 families out of more than 480 originally
registered with the Housing Department turned up at the site for the
exercise, although all families were invited to attend.
They were led to the site and asked to show exactly where their
huts had stood.
The process was the initial step taken to weed out impostors
who registered as fire victims in the hope of claiming public housing or
cash grants' to which they are not entitled.
A spokesman for the Housing Department said so far more than 50
families, or about 300 people, originally registered as fire victims have
been sifted out as false claimants as a result of today's exercise.
Inmediately after the site identification, a note was given to
family representatives calling on them to turn up at the squatter control
office at Kowloon Bay or at Tung Tau Estate on Friday for further processing.
The spokesman said the information collected today would be
checked carefully against the department's records to see whether they
tallied.
He reiterated that all genuine fire victims would be given either
public housing or resited accommodation, depending on their eligibility.
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