(e) the scale of ancillary social and employment facilities available and (in broad terms) required in various parts of the Colony in association with domestic housing;
and, having regard to all aspects of the Colony's practical ability to provide domestic housing, to make a report annually by 1st September for the consideration of the Governor in Council covering the matters listed above, together with recommendations for a forward building programme and a technical planning target, in categories of housing, covering the next 10 years from the date of the report.
(2) To advise the Governor from time to time on any administrative measures necessary to improve co-ordination between the agencies responsible for providing domestic housing.
(3) To consider and make recommendations on any matters affecting domestic housing policy which may be referred to the Board.
The Commissioner for Resettlement is an ex-officio member of the Board, and an Assistant Commissioner is a member of its sub-committee on statistics.
REVIEW OF THE YEAR
11. The following paragraphs contain a brief review of the main events during the year. A fuller account will be found in subsequent chapters.
12. The Resettlement Department did not escape unscathed from the year's disturbances. Much of the violence in May occurred in and around the central Kowloon group of estates (although there is no evidence that residents of these estates were particularly active in taking part in these riots), and estate and other offices at Wong Tai Sin, Lo Fu Ngam, Tung Tau and Wang Tau Hom, together with departmental staff quarters at Wong Tai Sin, were attacked during that month. Attempts were also made to set fire to a number of departmental lorries, inflammatory posters appeared in all estates, and by the end of the year there had been over 300 incidents involving real or fake bombs in estates. Some 30 labourers, predominantly at Lei Cheng Uk estate, absented themselves from duty during the so-called 'General Strike' in June and were dismissed-a very small proportion of a total labour force of about 3,000. Clearance and resettlement operations were restricted for a short time, and squatter control demolitions were halted for a longer period. Estate Kaifong associations were among the earliest organizations publicly to support
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