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WEDNESDAY, MAY 15, 1991

IN ADDITION

THERE WERE ABOUT

1,100

SQUATTERS

SCATTERED

SLOPES. CLEARED WHEN

THROUGHOUT THE NEW TERRITORIES LIVING ON STEEP AND VULNERABLE MOST LIVED ON PRIVATE AGRICULTURAL LAND, WHICH WAS ONLY THE LAND IS NEEDED.

"THESE STEEP

SLOPES

THAT HOUSE

SQUATTERS ARE PARTICULARLY VULNERABLE IN HEAVY RAIN, BECAUSE INSTABILITY (AND THEREFORE THE RISK) IS OFTEN AGGRAVATED BY INDISCRIMINATE SLOPE-CUTTING AND OF ADEQUATE DRAINAGE.

"IN ADDITION, THE FLIMSINESS OF THE DWELLINGS FOUNDATION WORKS DO NOT AFFORD GOOD PROTECTION.

BY THE LACK

AND THEIR POOR

SYSTEM PROVIDED SQUATTERS WITH OCCURRENCE OF LANDSLIPS ON STEEP

LANDSLIP WARNING HE SAID A ADEQUATE WARNING OF THE PROBABLE HILLSIDES.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

"WHERE NECESSARY, PEOPLE ARE URGED THROUGH RADIO TO TAKE REFUGE IN TEMPORARY SHELTERS PROVIDED BY THE DISTRICT OFFICES.

"SQUATTERS ARE IMMEDIATELY EVACUATED WHEN THERE

** HE ADDED. BELIEVE THEY FACE IMMINENT DANGER,

IS REASON ΤΟ

IN LAM ALL

TIN, SAU MAU SQUATTERS HAD

WITH REGARD TO THE FOUR SQUATTER AREAS PING, SHUN LEE AND YAU TONG, MR LEWIS SAID NEARLY BEEN REMOVED FROM THE WORST SLOPES.

"HARDLY ANY REMAIN IN LAM TIN AND YAU TONG, AND WILL BE CLEARED THIS SUMMER.

"THERE HAVE ALSO BEEN PARTIAL CLEARANCES IN THE SAU MAU PING AREAS, AND MORE ARE EXPECTED NEXT YEAR.

"AS LONG AS THEY LIVE ON THESE

THE REMAINDER

SHUN LEE AND

FOLLOW THE GUIDANCE NOTES PROVIDED BY PRECAUTIONARY MEASURES THEY SHOULD TAKE BEFORE AND SUCH AS MAINTENANCE OF SLOPES; DIVERSION OF WATER; AND TAKEN DURING RAINSTORMS AND WHEN THE LANDSLIP WARNING IS SAID.

SLOPES, ALL SQUATTERS SHOULD THE DISTRICT OFFICES ON THE DURING RAINSTORM, ACTION TO

BE

++ ISSUED, НЕ

[II BY ARE 210 IN BE IN A DANGEROUS

REGARDING BUIDLINGS CLASSIFIED AS CATEGORIES I, II AND

LEWIS SAID:

"THERE THE BUILDINGS ORDINANCE OFFICE, MR CATEGORY I THOSE BUILDINGS SEEN EXTERNALLY CONDITION, REQUIRING EARLY ACTION.

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ΤΟ

HAVE

BEEN SERVED HAVE BEEN

"ALL HAVE BEEN INSPECTED, AND REPAIR ORDERS ON THE OWNERS OF 193 BUILDINGS. THE REMAINING 17 BUILDINGS SERVED WITH ORDERS FOR DEMOLITION.

"THERE ARE

SOME

16,700 BUILDINGS

IN

CATEGORY

II

+

BUILDINGS ADJUDGED TO BE IN A SUSPECT CONDITION, REQUIRING A SURVEY.

AND REPAIR ORDERS "SOME 2,590 HAVE BEEN INSPECTED,

A FURTHER 46 BUILDINGS,

BUILDINGS THE OWNERS OF 1,381 SERVED CLOSURE ORDERS FOR DEMOLITION.

/"CATEGORY III

THOSE DETAILED

SERVED ON HAVE

BEEN