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Sai Wan Chuen Estate from the Kennedy Town waterfront.
Development and Welfare Fund. The pleted, and piling for block C finished. continues to
to make satisfactory pro- building contract is proceeding satis-
Arrangements have been made for gress, and it is hoped to complete this factorily, and Blocks A and D are connection of telephone cables to the contract at about the end of August. rapidly approaching completion: it is various blocks: tenants will pay for So far over 210,000 cu.yds. of earth hoped these two blocks will be finish. their own individual connections to and 27,000 cu.yds. of rock have been ed in mid-August, and Block E, flats. Lines will also be provided for excavated. The Commissioner for which fronts on to Cadogan Street, in
a number of public call-boxes on the Resettlement hopes to remove the 800 mid-September. The remaining two estate. Conduits for Rediffusion have squatters remaining in the vicinity of blocks, B and C, will not be finished also been placed in position, free of the site some time in August.
until February, 1959. The new face at the rear of the Block B site, where charge, by Messrs. Rediffusion Ltd.
Mr. Szeto's plans for Blocks E, F, G, H & I have been aproved by the Building Authority, and Mr. H. S. Site formation on the So Uk site Luke's plans for Blocks P, Q & R are
extensive erosion took place in the So Uk Estate. heavy rains last year, has been com-
Another view of Sai Wan Chuen from Hongkong University, by telephoto.
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in their hands.
Clearwater Bay Road site.
Government has approved the grant of the site (of about 20 acres) on the Clearwater Bay Road, to the north of the airport, to the Authority for de- velopment. Messrs. Palmer & Turner have been appointed to prepare a master plan for development, and several alternative schemes have al- ready been examined by the Authority. Ma Tau Chung, Kowloon.
A topographical survey of the site (of about 10 acres) at Ma Tau Chung, Kowloon, provisionally reserved by Government for the Authority's devel- opment, has been carried out. Finance.
The Authority now owes Govern- ment $38,071,492.43, the major pro- portion of which has been spent on the North Point Estate. Interest pay ments to Government are now running at an average of $108,900 a month.