shops, 830 bays were used for restaurants, 380 for the sale of fresh provisions, meat, fish, fruit and vegetables, 49 for selling roast meat and the remainder for other trades. The ground floor workshops house a wide variety of small enterprises, while tenants are also allowed to carry on certain simple cottage industries in upper floor domestic rooms.
61. Since the first six storey blocks were built at Shek Kip Mei, the Public Works Department has constructed 115 resettlement blocks to the initial 'H' type design and an additional 31 'T' type blocks designed to make use of smaller sites. A modification introduced in 1961 altered the external appearance of the design very considerably, especially when viewed from the ends, whilst not affecting the layout or number of the internal rooms. The ends of the arms of the 'H' blocks were connected by a hollow block concrete screen, and additional rooms of a new and enlarged size, each with its individual balcony, were provided. Ninety- four Mark II blocks were built between 1961 and 1964. Appendix V shows a plan of a Mark II block.
62. One striking feature of the resettlement Programme has been the speed with which blocks have been planned and constructed. By the end of 1954, the Architectural Office of the Public Works Depart- ment had produced standard drawings which made it possible to prepare working drawings and specifications for a building contract at very short notice. An example of this is a seven storey building con- taining 840 rooms which was one of the first to be constructed at the Li Cheng Uk Estate. It was finished about eight weeks after piling has been completed. By the end of the first financial year in which per- manent resettlement buildings were planned and constructed, seventeen blocks of six or seven storeys, containing in all 8,508 rooms were completed, and plans for building an additional twenty-five blocks containing 12,698 rooms were well advanced. This good start has not been an isolated phenomenon and it is a tribute to the Colony's efficient building industry as well as to the Public Works Department that by 31st March, 1966, 388 multi-storey blocks had been constructed, comprising 157,836 rooms. The number authorized persons living in the estates at the end of March was 770,869, an increase of 89,735 during the year (see Appendices I and VI) which includes the addition of 7,000 family members who were previously living in the estates but whose residence therein was officially tolerated during the year. Under the previous policy, these newcomers could be added only if sufficient room space was available. The new policy introduced in 1964 permits
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