50. Seven clearances were made during the year to clear land for housing schemes. Sixty seven structures occupied by 940 persons (174 families) were cleared from part of the site at Willow Street, Tai Kok Tsui, reserved for the Hong Kong and Yaumati Ferry Company's low cost housing scheme for its employees. Other sites were cleared for the Star Ferry Company's housing scheme at Fat Kwong Street, Hung Hom; for a co-operative Housing Scheme at La Salle Road; for private enter- prise housing at Chung On Street, Tsuen Wan; and for a small auction site at Kowloon City Road. At Kwun Tong the site for the Hong Kong Housing Society's large new low-cost housing scheme was cleared in December, 1957, while in March, 1958, a part of the site reserved for industrial workers' housing was cleared of squatter huts and pigsties. A site was also cleared in March, 1958, at Ngau Tau Kok for the Amoy Canning Company's workers quarters at the rear of their present factory.
51. Five clearances were made to free land for factories; one of these was at Shau Kei Wan for the China Can Company, three opera- tions were for the Textile Corporation's new factory on Tsuen Wan Inland Lot No. 16, and the fifth was for a small extension to the Cheung Sha Wan Resettlement Factory.
52. Three other sites, at Tai Kok Tsui, were partially cleared during the year in preparation for the building of schools, namely the Yew Chung Primary School, a Government Primary School at Willow Street, and a school at Sycamore Street. An area was also cleared in Shau Kei Wan for a Government primary school to be built on the site of the former Shau Kei Wan Police Station. One small clearance was carried out at Li Cheng Uk on a site reserved for new schools.
53. During October, 1957, a clearance was carried out at Kau U Fong, in the Central District, when the site reserved for a new Govern- ment clinic was cleared of seventy huts occupied by 376 persons (77 families). There was no resettlement accommodation available on Hong Kong Island and it was necessary to charter a ferry-boat to move these squatters to Kowloon for resettlement in the Hung Hom Estate.
54. No less important were the clearances made for Public Works Department projects for extensions of roads, and for drainage and water- works schemes. A clearance was made in Hong Kong for the eastern section of the Tin Hau Temple Road extension, while in Kowloon two clearances were made to enable improvements to be carried out at the
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