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HONG KONG TO COMMONWEALTH OFFICE (D.T.D.)
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PRESS 191915
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19 October 1967
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Attention Glover Sitrep.
ARCHIVES No. 63
20 OCT!
HWA 1/17
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In a lightning operation at Ta Kwu Ling Village this morning a police party arrested a man who is believed to be ringleader of past disturbances on British Territory in this sector of border.
He is Iu Wong Kwai (repeat Iu Wong Kwai) forty-five from Lo Fang village (repeat Lo Fang village) which lies just across the frontier from Ta Kwu Ling.
Iu is now being questioned by police in connexion with incident at Lo Fang Bridge on August 11 when a police inspector was seriously injured and Stirling machine gun stolen by a violent group of troublemakers from across border.
Typhoon threat apparently discouraged local terrorists from planting bombs today Thursday. Only eleven objects were found between 8 a.m. and 7 p.m. of which only two proved to be real bombs.
Typhoon Carla which caused death of more than forty people in Taiwan by-passed Colony. Storm had been threatening Colony for past two days.
Governor in Council has accepted Housing Board's recommendations as a working basis subject to availability of sites and funds for Government's resettlement and low cost housing programmes for six year period from April 1966 to March 1972.
This acceptance of recommendations as a working basis has also been endorsed by Finance Committee of Legislative Council.
Board's recommendations are:
(1) an increase of space standard in re-designed
(2)
resettlement blocks from a minimum of twenty-four square feet to thirty-five square feet per adult (i.e. person over ten years of age) on first allocation in all but larger rooms; and
an adjustment of balance between present resettlement and Government low cost housing building programmes to allow six-hundred -and-fifty-thousand individual units of Government low cost housing to be constructed between April 1 1966 and March 31 1972.
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