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owners who had lost their land and houses for the extension of the airfield. This is correct. When I became District Officer South in 1957, I found that the office registers listed a number of files dealing with the subject, among them DOS9/171/50 (1950), entitled 'Kai Tak Compensation - List of Property formerly owned by Squatters at Kowloon Tong (Kowloon Tsai) Model Village', and that my staff were still making payments to late applicants.
Model Village itself was cleared for development in the early 1980s, removing an almost forgotten link with the wartime events, which had brought so much hardship to those village families directly involved.
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owners who had lost their land and houses for the extension of the airfield. This is correct. When I became District Officer South in 1957, I found that the office registers listed a number of files dealing with the subject, among them DOS 9/171/50 (1950), entitled 'Kai Tak Compensation - List of Property formerly owned by Squatters at Kowloon Tong (Kowloon Tsai) Model Village', and that my staff were still making payments to late applicants.
Model Village itself was cleared for development in the early 1980s, removing an almost forgotten link with the wartime events, which had brought so much hardship to those village families directly involved.
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