Block
Wong Tai Sin
W
Name of Organization
Evangelical Lutheran Church of Hong
Kong (North wing rooftop)
Activities
School
Y
The Canadian Holiness Mission (South
wing rooftop)
School
•
Y
Lutheran Missouri Synod (North wing
rooftop)
Boys' and Girls' Club
Y
Chai Wan
A
The Family Planning Association, Hong
Kong (Ground floor rooms)
Grace Evangel Mission (North wing rooftop) School
Clinic
SUMMARY
Schools
Boys' and Girls' Clubs
Welfare Centres
Clinics
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CHAPTER VII
RESETTLEMENT OF FACTORIES AND WORKSHOPS
94. Most squatter areas in the Colony include not only domestic structures but also a number of small factories and workshops. These may vary in size from fairly substantial businesses with a number of employees, to a family concern housed in a corner of the same hut that is used for living and sleeping; but they all have in common the fact that they provide much needed employment for squatters living in the area, of which they form an integral part; and there are few industries carried on in the Colony which are not in one way or another dependent on their products. It is therefore of considerable importance to ensure that the clearance of a squatter area does not entail the closing down of these concerns for lack of premises in which to carry on their trades.
95. A number of rooms on the ground floors of resettlement estates have been made available for use as small workshops, but it was impossible to allow in these rooms the use of power-driven machinery or other processes likely to disturb the residents in the block. After consultation between the Labour Department, the Commerce and Industry Department, the Public Works Department, and the Resettle- ment Department, a resettlement factory was built at Cheung Sha Wan as a pilot project, to provide space for those concerns which occupied land urgently required for permanent development but which were not
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