the type of block and size of accommodation. An amendment to the Resettlement Regulations has since 1st April, 1967 provided for a uniform rent of $1 a month for all premises allocated in resettlement estates for use as schools or for non-profit-making charitable or welfare purposes, irrespective of size and location. The competent authorities allocate premises as schools or for welfare activities on the advice of the Education and Social Welfare Departments.
88. The community centre at Tsuen Wan has been mentioned in para- graph 82. There are three others conveniently located to serve resettlement populations at Kwun Tong, Wong Tai Sin and Tai Hang Tung. Each is a six-storey building with an assembly hall on the ground floor and such facilities or activities on other floors as day nurseries, libraries, clubs for disabled children and hobby or other clubs for adults and young people. The centres are run by the Social Welfare Department, but many of the projects housed in them are managed by voluntary agencies.
89. Recreation areas are included in all resettlement estates. These may take a variety of forms: pitches for football, basket-ball and other forms of active recreation, children's playground equipped with swings, slides, and other attractions, or rest gardens and sitting-out areas. The areas are formed, surfaced and fenced during the construction of the estate, and then handed over to the Urban Services Department to equip and manage. 10 newly-planned or equipped playgrounds were opened by Urban Councillors during the year, notably at Kwun Tong, Shek Pai Wan, Tsz Wan Shan, Jordan Valley and Yuen Long estates. With the assist- ance of the Urban Services Department, a programme for planting trees. and shrubs in all estates was continued. These provide much-needed breaks in the endless vistas of concrete, as well as welcome shade; they also help to consolidate slopes in the terraced estates. It is hoped that new techniques which enable more mature trees to be transplanted will result in a higher survival rate than in earlier schemes of this kind.
90. Although most of the urban population need not travel more than a mile to a Government medical clinic, one of the features of reset- tlement estates for some years has been the number of vans converted into make-shift clinics and run by a variety of agencies. Many of these clinics, although termed 'mobile', had long ago lost their ability to move under their own power; many of them failed to maintain an acceptable standard of hygiene; and many were in the hands of practitioners whose qualifications were not registrable. The legislation under which they were allowed to operate ceased to have effect at the end of the calendar
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