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site formation would be expensive, but very much not impossible and I do urge the Government to investigate it now and do not leave it for another ten years.
QUESTIONS.
(1) MR. A. de O. SALES asked the following question:—
(a) Is the Commissioner for Resettlement able to inform this Council how many persons have been housed by his Department in each financial year since the resettlement programme began?
(b) How many does he expect to accommodate in 1971-72
and in each successive year until 1975-76?
THE COMMISSIONER FOR RESETTLEMENT replied as follows:-
A total of 1,109,256 persons have been housed by the Reset- tlement Department since its establishment in 1954 up to the end of February 1971. A breakdown into the number of persons resettled in each financial year is as follows:-
No. of Persons resettled
Year
1953-54
8,653
1954-55
70,563
1955-56
50,675
1956-57
37,704
1957-58
22,707
1958-59
42,390
1959-60
52,705
1960-61
48,587
1961-62
73,040
1962-63
83,029
1963-64
91,095
1964-65
128,809
1965-66
89,708
1966-67
88,126
1967-68
106,473
1968-69
57,910
1969-70
36,599
1970-71
20,483
(end of February)
If the 45,906 persons who were rehoused in the pre 1953 "resettlement areas" were also to be included, the total would have been 1,124,018 persons.
Based on commitments so far known to the department and the amount of accommodation expected to be available in 1971-72, it is probable that about 108,000 persons will be resettled during that year.
No comments yet.
Private notes are available after approval.