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Wednesday, January 16, 1974
1973 BUSY YEAR FOR HOME AFFAIRS DEPARTMENT
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Nearly 1.5 million enquiries and cases were dealt with by the Home Affairs Department last year an increase of about 6.5 per cent
over the 1972 figure.
The subjects most frequently raised were in connection with
rent control and tenancy, housing and public assistance, a department
spokesman said.
Most enquiries concerned the Rating and Valuation Department,
Enquiries relating to this department totalled 127,744. This was followed
by the Judiciary with 93,177 enquiries, the Education Department with 76,299, the Immigration Department with 65,829, and the Housing Department
with 59,470.
All the enquiries were handled by the 19 Public Enquiry Centrea
and the two Tenancy Inquiry Bureaux operated by the Home Affairs Department.
In addition a total of 577,528 government application forms of
various kinds were distributed through the Enquiry Centree last year.
Most of these forms were applications for government vacancies, housing estate units and entries to the two technical institutes.
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