should be opened in June 1967 and will consist of 13 two-storey blocks of 176 domestic units, 14 shops, a staff quarter and an office. The accom- modation will house 1,200 victims of typhoon Wanda, whose homes in Sha Tin were destroyed in 1962.
67. Various works have continued to improve Rennie's Mill Village which has only been a gazetted cottage area since the first day of 1964. This year the Works Division installed 12,908 feet of cement paths or steps, 2,829 feet of cement surfacing to stream-courses, 600 feet of two- wheel track, a number of incinerators, a store, a reinforced cement con- crete bridge, and 5,379 feet of wire-net fencing. There are plans to convert aqua privies into flush latrines. The Roads and Drainage Office of the Public Works Department have improved a number of the sharp bends and corners in Po Lam Road which leads to the village, and the Port Works Division has completed a public pier, primarily intended for passenger ferries, which came into use in September 1966. The Resettlement Department's Works Division is designing a reinforced cement concrete market with an asbestos roof to replace the old wooden market which was destroyed by fire during the year.
PRIMARY EDUCATION AND WELFARE
68. With voluntary agencies showing so much interest in the cottage areas from their inception, it is not surprising that they contain many schools and welfare facilities. These institutions pay a nominal fee of $2.50 per quarter for each site provided by the department. The activities of various bodies working in the Ngau Tau Kok Cottage Area are typical of those to be found elsewhere. Built mainly between 1952 and 1956, this is one of the larger cottage areas, although it is now beginning to be whittled away as indicated in para. 65 above. Its present authorized population of 7,353 people consists of 1,330 families, who live in 1,230 individual structures. Fifteen years ago this was beyond the suburbs, but since the expanding development of New Kowloon in the past decade, adjacent areas have become highly urbanised. The principal social and educational work is in the hands of the Maryknoll Mission which runs a primary school which, by holding separate morning and afternoon sessions, has a total of 1,800 places, and also provides a clinic, handicraft training centre and welfare centre with children's library.
69. Although Ngau Tau Kok is particularly well-served by this voluntary agency, there are many other denominational and secular
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