XN000022-1973-12-27 — Page 2

Thursday, December 27, 1973

FURTHER PROCESSING OF FIRE VICTIMS ON SATURDAY

Mary Impostors Trying To Cash In On Fire tragedy

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The Housing Department today called on people who lost their

homes in the Kowloon Tsai squatter fire on Christmas Day to report to the

Tai Kang Tung Community Centre in Tong Yam Street on Saturday (December 29)

for further processing of their claims.

Notices telling the victims of the exercise are being posted

at all eight temporary accommodation centres, the Sham Shui Po City District

Office and the police mobile reporting centre at Tai Hang Tung.

In the squatter fire, about 350 structures in Man Heung Yuen, llan

San Lane and Sai Man Lane in the Kowloon Tsai area were destroyed. A total

of 616 families, comprising 2,507 people, have been registered homeless.

The further processing exercise will begin at 9 a.m. on Saturday

and will probably last throughout the day. Only the head of the household

or an adult representative from each family should attend the personal

processing exercise.

They should bring along with them their identity card, emergency relief

card issued by the Social Welfare Department, the birth certificate of all members

of their families and any other document which can help them to substantiate

their olaims.

They are also advised to bring some warm clothing and food with

them in view of the time needed to attend the large number of people turning up

for the exercise.

Mr. Leslie Pogue, Assistant Director (Operations) of the Housing

Department, said that the exercise was a very important step to weed out

impostors.

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