Tai Sin Estates, run by the Boys' and Girls' Clubs Association; a nursery at Wong Tai Sin Estate run by the Save the Children Fund; and the Resettlement Estates Loan and Savings Association, a project of the Hong Kong Council of Social Service, which has set up centres at Tai Hang Tung and Wong Tai Sin Estates.

86.

By arrangement with the Social Welfare and Education Depart- ments the ground floor rooms in selected blocks in new estates are now reserved for schools and welfare projects and are allocated by these departments to suitable voluntary agencies.

87. Large recreation spaces are also provided within the boundaries of each estate, which are laid out by the Urban Services Department in the same way as playgrounds and recreation spaces in other parts of the urban areas. They include small fenced-off playgrounds for young children, enclosed areas with lawns and benches for the more elderly, volley ball and basketball courts and miniature football grounds. Play- grounds of this type have been completed at Tai Hang Tung, Li Cheng Uk, Shek Kip Mei and Wong Tai Sin Estates.

88. Crown Land in the vicinity of the resettlement estates is also reserved for schools, welfare centres and clinics. A large Government polyclinic in Shek Kip Mei and a Government school in Li Cheng Uk were completed in 1958. The Tai Hang Tung Government School near Tai Hang Tung Estate was completed in 1959 and two more Govern- ment schools, one at Shek Kip Mei and the other at Wong Tai Sin Estate were completed during the year under review. A welfare centre at Wong Tai Sin Estate was nearing completion at the end of the year. 89. Particulars of the schools, welfare centres, and clinics in the cottage areas and in the multi-storey estates will be found at Appendices A and B to this Chapter.

APPENDIX A TO CHAPTER VI

SCHOOLS, CLUBS AND WELFARE CENTRES IN THE COTTAGE AREAS ON 31.3.60

Chai Wan Resettlement Area

Catholic Welfare Centre and Clinic (Maryknoll Mission)

Maryknoll Sisters' Primary School

Boys' and Girls' Club (Boys' and Girls' Clubs Association)

Youth Club (Assemblies of God)

Government Maternal and Child Health Centre

Hong Kong and Kowloon Residents' Association Clinic

Mount Davis Resettlement Area

Kuet Sam Kindergarten (Maryknoll Mission)

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