TNAG-0317-FCO40-353-Policy-of-housing-and-resettlement-in-Hong-Kong-problem-of-s-1971 — Page 97

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REGISTRY No. 51 4.SOUL:971

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Thank you for your letter of 24th June, 1971, addressed to Clinton. I am sorry that we did not define the expression "metropolitan area" in our telegram 413; this is a term which we have brought into relatively recent use to refer to Hong Kong, Kowloon, New Kowloon and Tsuen Wan/Kwai Chung, which together make up the central built-up area. According to provisional figures from the 1971 Census, the popula- tion of this metropolitan area is 3,460,423 so that squatters represent about 5.4% of this total.

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E.O. Laird, Esq., CMG, MBE, Hong Kong Department,

Foreign and Commonwealth Office, LONDON, S.W.1.

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