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population rose to 150,000. At Tsuen Wan and Kwai Chung 115 acres of hillside terraces and reclamation were formed in the scheme being carried out under consulting engineers, while other contracts under the control of the Public Works Department produced a further 41 acres of formed sites which will be used for the con- struction of resettlement and low-cost housing.
In Kowloon, site formation schemes for schools and medium- density housing at Họ Man Tin and high-class housing in the Lung Cheung Road area progressed satisfactorily and 10 acres were formed at Yau Tong for a resettlement estate. Another scheme which envisages the forming of further land in the Kowloon foot- hills for high-class housing and for institutional, community, and government use was approved and construction work was about to start. Engineering reports were prepared on the feasibility of creating two more large new towns in the New Territories at Castle Peak and Sha Tin. On Hong Kong Island, two site formation schemes at Aberdeen produced some 30 acres of land for resettle- ment estates.
PUBLIC UTILITIES
The Hongkong Electric Company Limited supplies electricity to the islands of Hong Kong and Lamma from its power station at North Point. The installed generating capacity of the power station at the end of 1964 was 225 MW. During the year the maximum demand on the station increased by 6.3 per cent to 159.4 MW. A two 60 MW generating station extension is due for commis- sioning in the spring of 1966.
The primary and secondary transmission systems operate at 66 kV and at 33 kV and 22 kV respectively. The primary distribution system operates at 11 kV and 6.6 kV and the secondary distribution system operates at 346 volts three phase and 200 volts, single phase. The work of changing the 6.6 kV system to 11 kV operation is well in hand and when this has been completed, transmission at 22 kV will cease. The frequency is stabilized at 50 cycles per second.
The amount of electricity generated during 1964 was 739.4 m.kWh, an increase of 11.4 per cent over the previous year. The number of consumers increased by 6.2 per cent to 125,403 during 1964 and sales of electricity amounted to 647.4 m.kWh made up of 158.4