Site-prepara- tion.
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The cost of preparing the sites for the new villages is shown in the following table:-
Kam Tin...
Tsat Sing Kong
Pan Chung
Shek Ku Lung
Ping Kong
Wo Hop Shek... Nam Shui Po Fung Yuen
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:
$ 5,000.00 1,300.00 10,000.00
500.00
1,000.00
1,700.00
5,000.00
7,000.00
$31,500.00
Wells.
Houses.
This work will be done exclusively by Government, and provision has been made in the 1928 Estimates to cover the expenditure.
The cost of making eight wells at Kam Tin, Pan Chung, Wo Hop Shek, Ping Kong, Yu Kok, Tsat Sing Kong and Nam Shui Po is $2,400.
Free sites are given in exchange for land on which houses now stand and the question of compensation for building land resumed at Shing Mun should not arise. The existing dwellings at Shing Mun have been measured and it is necessary to provide for the erection of buildings of the same cubic content in the new villages subject only to approval of plans. It is proposed to allow the villagers to construct their own houses, Government paying in accordance with the following table, for
(1) Dwellings, by contract (contractors engaged by villagers) as
the work proceeds, at a flat rate of 12 cents per cubic foot. (2) Outhouses, roughly constructed by the villagers themselves, at
their value as they now stand in Shing Mun.
Cost of new Compensation dwellings. for outhouses.
Kam Tin
Pan Chung
Wo Hop Shek
Shek Ku Lung.
Ping Kong
Yue Kok
Tsat Sing Kong
Nam Shui Po
Compensation (Outside owners).
$
$$3
106,056
4,838
22,463
891
9,022
926
1,745
71
10,564
759
9,152
491
6,458
161
2,814
209
1,874
Total.................$
$170,148
8,346