the upper floors. However, certain trades such as metal-ware manufac- turers, weaving factories or small sawmills, because of the size and weight of the machinery used or the nature of the work carried on, are given priority for ground floor rooms. Any process which might con- stitute a fire risk, as for example plastic work, is accommodated on the top floor.
97. Clearances of these factories are carried out by the Mobile Unit and have presented a number of problems not met with in domestic clearances. Where a concern is using processes considered unsuitable for accommodation in the factory, the proprietor has to be persuaded either to modify his method of work, or to forego space in the factory. The exact dimensions of the working space within the squatter factory have to be calculated so that the number of the units to be allocated can be readily computed. The factory workers actually living on the premises before the clearance have to be registered and screened, and arrange- ments made to offer them accommodation in estates not too far distant from the factory.
98. By the end of the year under review two additional Resettlement Factories of the same basic design as the Cheung Sha Wan Factory had been completed, one of 380 units in Chai Wan in May 1959 and the other of 275 units at Jordan Valley in December 1959. A total of 286 factories and workshops of various kinds have been resettled in these three Resettlement Factory Blocks. The two latter factories incorporated certain modifications resulting from the experience gained at Cheung Sha Wan, mainly the provision of chimney flue stacks on half of one wing of the third and fourth floors and an enlarged penthouse on the rooftop for a canteen. A second factory at Cheung Sha Wan and a factory at Tai Wo Hau were under construction at the end of the year, and sites had been reserved for six more factories.
CHAPTER VIII
SQUATTER CONTROL
99. It is the responsibility of the Squatter Prevention and Control Division to prevent the construction of new squatter huts or extensions to existing huts whether on vacant land, on streets or lanes, or on tenement rooftops. This Division derives its authority from the Resettle- ment Ordinance, No. 16 of 1958, under which the term 'unlawful structure' is widely defined and includes any unauthorized structure on
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