estates at Shek Lei, Sau Mau Ping (Stage II) and Ngau Tau Kok during the year. It is intended to apply the contract cleansing system to all future estates.
108. Water restrictions were imposed throughout the Colony from June until August. In the newer Mark IV blocks where individual water taps are provided in rooms, the water supply hours were reduced to four hours on alternate days. In Marks I-III blocks where residents obtain their supply from communal taps, water was available for four hours a day. As the regular supply hours were from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m., officers had to work long hours supervising tenants queuing up for water. It is a tribute to both tenants and staff that there were no serious in- cidents during this period, despite attempts to foment bad feeling.
109. A memorable event during the year was the installation on 26th October of the millionth settler in cottage areas and resettlement estates combined. In the past, two milestones in resettlement have been commemorated: the completion of the 100th residential resettlement block in 1958 and the introduction of the 16-storey block, in 1965. The settler commemorated on this occasion was Miss Jenny FUNG Kwai-chun, aged 6, who was crippled by poliomyelitis when she was 18 months old. The room in which she and her family were resettled, at Shek Pai Wan estate on Hong Kong Island, was decorated and furnished at the expense of the Hong Kong Government; and in a ceremony attended by a large and distinguished gathering, His Excellency the Governor unveiled a commemorative plaque and presented the keys to the Fung family.
CHAPTER 7
RESETTLEMENT FACTORIES
110. In the early days of resettlement most areas cleared for re- development contained only domestic huts, shops and cottage industries. There was no special provision for any squatter factory that might be encountered, nor for workshops, though some of the latter were accommodated in ground floor rooms in the domestic resettlement blocks and, with certain limitations, persons engaged in cottage industries were permitted to carry on work in their domestic rooms. But in time clearance areas, especially those previously occupied under permits issued by the Crown Lands and Survey Office of the Public Works Department, began to include larger industrial concerns with heavier
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