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made for the widening of Junction Road, Lo Fu Ngam, the Shek Kip Mei Tai Hang Tung Link Road, Winslow Street and Texaco Road, Tsuen Wan.
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42. Sites were cleared for salt water reservoirs above Wong Tai Sin and Jordan Valley Estates and for pipelines leading to the salt water reservoirs already under construction at Tai Wo Ping and Kwun Tong. Drainage requirements, which are normally included within any project, produced separate clearances at Kwan Mun Hau Village for a box culvert and above Li Cheng Uk for the drainage of the area above the Tai Po Road.
43. Sites for Urban Services Department latrines and bathhouses were cleared at Soy Street, Mong Kok, and Hau Wong Road, Kowloon City; for a hawker bazaar at Kun Chung Street; and for a new market between Soy Street and Shan Tung Street, Mong Kok, Two sites for Police stations and quarters were cleared in late 1959 at Shek Kip Mei and at Kwun Tong, the latter involving clearance of 10.69 acres of cultivation land.
44. Finally the schedules for the year have included many clearances for miscellaneous purposes outside the normal run of Public Works Department projects. Such were the clearances for the sale of land at Yau Tong Bay for boatyards, and for an extension to the American anti-biotics research laboratory at Aberdeen. Two sites were cleared in Kowloon for power stations for the China Light & Power Co.; a site was cleared at Sha Tin Pass Road for a hospital for the Maryknoll Sisters; and clearances were made for extensions to the Civil Aid Services training ground at Argyle Street and to the Stanley Training Centre.
45. Altogether there were 120 clearances of land during the year. 46 clearances involved land under cultivation, and of these, 23 clearances did not involve the resettlement of any persons. The total area of cul- tivated land cleared during 1959/60 was 49.76 acres, for which ex- gratia compensation amounting to $1,521,361.09 was paid.
46. A summary of the clearance and resettlement operations during the year is attached as an appendix to this Chapter. Of the total of 49,414 persons cleared, 43,846 (88.97% of the total) were cleared in order to free 209.88 acres of land for permanent development, and 5,568 (11.03% of the total) were squatter fire-victims and rooftop dwellers cleared from temporary huts on the streets and rooftops of buildings,
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