Yau Ma Tei Bralt caneta.
Petition to Flagstaff House
The Society for Community Organisation and a number of student bodies have been agitating for rehousing of boat dwellers in Yau Ma Tei Typhoon shelter since mid- 1977. The boat dwellers have all the ingredients for adverse publicity - cramped conditions, primitive sanitation, the occasional and sometimes deliberate sinking. Despite this, they have not generated significant public sympathy. The Housing Department has done its best to explain the policy and the problems to representatives of the boat-squatters and the concerned groups, both orally and in writing. The latter Lave chosen not to accept the explanations. The most recent activity has been as follows:
September 1973:
October 5, 1978:
October 5, 1978:
October 5, 1978:
November 9, 1978:
Survey report by Hong Kong Union students on boat squatters published.
Petition to Secretary for Housing by joint committee on accommodation problems of boat dwellers.
Petition to Secretary for Housing by representatives of Yau Ma Tei boat
dwellers.
Delegation of boat dwellers and con- cerned groups to UMELCO.
Petition to Chief Secretary from representatives and J.C.A.P.3.D.
(a joint committee whose name escapes ??
me at the moment).
December 24, 1978: Attempted unauthorised demonstration
et Secretariat, dispersed at Blake Fier, Central.
January 7, 1979:
Unauthorized demonstration at Flagstaff House participants arrested.
The activities of December 24 and January 7 require further comment:
On December 24, 1978 a large number of demonstrators and etudents gathered on Blake Pier for the purpose of holding a demonstration at Flagstaff House. The police warned them that their intended action would constitute an unlawful assembly. After some argument. the majority of demonstrators dispersed, but a defiant minority held an impromptu press conference.
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