for working boats and shelter during bad weather. During this year, 5,606 boat squatters were cleared from typhoon shelters in Yau Ma Tei and Causeway Bay, and 2,431 from the lagoon which is due for reclamation in Tsuen Wan.
41. Altogether there were 240 clearances of land during the year, 47 of these involved land under cultivation. The total of cultivated land cleared during 1962 to 1963 was 61.6045 acres for which ex-gratia compensation amounting to $2,085,270.27 was paid,
42. A summary of the year's clearance operations is attached as an appendix to this Chapter.
APPENDIX TO CHAPTER III
SUMMARY OF CLEARANCE AND RESETILEMENT OPERATIONS
1st April, 1962 to 31st March, 1963
A. Land
Land required for development
Purposes for which land is required
No. of Acres Cleared
No. of
Persons Cleared and
Resettled
Zidne vidriod
1.
4.
5.
6.
#
Resettlement Estate
2. Low Cost Housing Estate 3. Other Housing Schemes
7.
Schools, Playgrounds, Parks and Recreation
Centres
...
Engineering Works (Roads, Reservoirs, etc.) Public Buildings
444
Sale Exchange or Private Development 8. Land not required for development
Boat Squatters Typhoon Victims
249.33
22,584
1.48
. . -
2,249
9.79
2,439
17.77
9,898
163.46
9,953
1.81
523
+
418.21
27,088
1,962
8,037
+
...
324
+
Total
861.85
85,057
CHAPTER IV
THE COTTAGE AREAS
43. When squatters are cleared they are resettled or resited; that is, they are provided with somewhere else to live. The first clearances in Hong Kong were in 1948; squatters in central areas, chiefly bombed sites, were offered sites in more outlying areas, which, it was then thought, would not be required for other development in the foreseeable future. These areas were designated 'resettlement areas'. Government laid out roads, paths and drains and installed latrines, water stand pipes and public lighting; but the settlers at first built their own structures.
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