will provide 1,062 units of 198 square feet each and the single storey block 51 units of 180 square feet each.
39. Five clearances were made during the year to clear land for housing sites, the majority in Hong Kong. In Sai Wan Ho Street, Shau Kei Wan, sites were cleared for three separate Local Officers' Housing Schemes, 2,374 persons being resettled from these clearances into Chai Wan Estate, Cultivated land was cleared for a Local Officers' Housing Scheme at Mount Butler and for a Union Metal Workers Housing Scheme at Quarry Bay. At Aberdeen 0.72 acres of cultivation were cleared for the Hong Kong Housing Society. The squatters from this last clearance were not resettled but were given sites off the Aberdeen Road on which to reconstruct their huts.
40. Sites were cleared for ten new schools. Of these the biggest clearance was for the Urban Services Department Chi Kit School, at Shan Tung Street, Mong Kok. The site contained a large number of stone and wooden structures which were used as shops, small car- repairing workshops, factories, and for domestic purposes. Twelve workshops were resettled in the Cheung Sha Wan factory. Sites were cleared for four schools between Ma Tau Wei Road and Pau Cheung Street, from which 889 squatters and 23 small factories were resettled in Jordan Valley Estate. One site has not yet been allocated; the remainder will be used by the Northcote Primary School, Salvation Army Primary School, and a Lutheran Primary School. Two sites were cleared for schools adjoining Li Cheng Uk Estate, one for the Tsung Tsin Associa- tion Primary School, and one for a Catholic Mission Primary School. Finally, clearances were made for Government schools, at Lo Fu Ngam, and Canal Road, Wan Chai, and for the Salesian Sisters School at Sha Tin Pass Road.
41. A number of clearances were made for Public Works schemes for the extension and improvement of the Colony's roads, drains, port works and water supply systems. Perhaps the most important of these schemes is the new Kowloon Foothills Road the line of which was cleared in June, July and August, 1959. This was principally a difficult cultivation clearance and the majority of the cultivators chose to rebuild their structures on cultivated land in the neighbourhood rather than accept resettlement. This road will eventually connect with the new Kwun Tong Road, the first two stages of which were cleared in November and March. Other important road clearances were for the access road to Chai Wan Estate, which included a part of Chai Wan Cottage Area, and of West Road, Wong Tai Sin. Clearances were also
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