clearances and for sites for schools and welfare centres to be allocated to voluntary agencies. It also checks and passes plans and calculations for buildings for factories, or for schools, clinics, etc. sponsored by welfare organizations, and carries out inspections of the completed structures.
95. Contracts let to private contractors during the year included the re-building of fifteen shops at Tai Wo Hau, offices and sub-stores at Tai Wo Hau and Tai Wo Ping, twenty aqua-privy blocks, nine refuse incinerators, fencing and general maintenance work throughout the cottage areas.
96. The most important item of development work carried out by departmental labour was the formation of 644 new cottage sites together with their ancillary paths, steps and drainage channels.
APPENDIX TO CHAPTER VI
BUILDINGS IN COTTAGE AREAS
A. Stone or Brick Cottages
Owned by Permittee
Hire Purchase agreements
Rental agreements
Totals
1. Built by Permittee (or his private contractor)
1,762
1,762
2. Built by contractors be- tween 1951 and 1954 for sale to eligible persons
3. Built by non-profit making and welfare organizations
4. Built or purchased by the Government
2.095
153
9*
2,257
920
1,697
1,389+
4,006
437
437
Totals ...
4,777
1.850
1.835
8,462
B. Wooden Huts
Built by Permittee ...
5,902
5,902
C. Shops
Built by Permittee (or his
private contractor)
395
395
D. Workshops & Factories
Built by permittee (or his
private contractor)
Grand Totals
* Requisitioned by Government.
78
78
11,152
1,850
1,835
14.837
† 1,212 of these cottages have been handed over to the Government which, therefore,
now owns 1,658 cottages.
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