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(b) To open a branch library in the Sham Shui Po area. (c) To complete plans for a branch library in the Wah Fu Estate for opening in early 1969.
(d) To press for the establishment of a permanent main library in Kowloon as soon as a suitable opportunity arises.
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24. To press more vigorously for the enlargement of the Council's scope in the spirit of the Ad Hoc Committee's Report on the Future Scope and Operation of the Urban Council.
RESETTLEMENT
23. (a) To maintain the programme to resettle persons as rapidly as possible and, in the management and administration of estates and cottage areas, to continue to institute measures designed to improve the living conditions of the residents and to integrate them into the general community.
(b) To review the policy and priorities for resettlement as laid down in the White Paper entitled "Review of Policies for Squatter Control, Resettlement and Government Low Cost Housing, 1964" and to suggest amendments thereto as considered necessary, in particular to relieve over-crowding in the older Resettlement Estates.
(c) Pending a decision to allocate space at 35 sq. ft. per adult to urge the Government to implement the policy, which has been adopted in principle, of counting children of 6 or over as adults for the purpose of room allocation, while retaining the policy of counting children of 10 or over as adults for the purpose of qualifying for relief of overcrowding.
(d) To endeavour to contain hawkers within specified areas in resettlement estates, and to ensure that hawking is conducted within the spaces allocated, and in the right manner.
(e) To seek the co-operation of the Government to have more Government and aided secondary (including technical) schools available within reasonable access of resettlement estates.
(f) To continue to develop all open spaces in existing and new estates for amenities and recreation, and to ensure that such spaces are ready for use on occupation of the estates, and to guard against their misuse for purposes other than recreation.
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(b) To open a branch library in the Sham Shui Po area. (c) To complete plans for a branch library in the Wah Fu Estate for opening in early 1969.
(d) To press for the establishment of a permanent main library in Kowloon as soon as a suitable opportunity arises.
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GENERAL POLICY
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24. To press more vigorously for the enlargement of the Council's scope in the spirit of the Ad Hoc Committee's Report on the Future Scope and Operation of the Urban Council.
RESETTLEMENT
23. (a) To maintain the programme to resettle persons as rapidly as possible and, in the management and administration of estates and cottage areas, to continue to institute measures designed to improve the living conditions of the residents and to integrate them into the general community.
(b) To review the policy and priorities for resettlement as laid down in the White Paper entitled "Review of Policies for Squatter Control, Resettlement and Government Low Cost Housing, 1964" and to suggest amendments thereto as considered necessary, in particular to relieve over-crowding in the older Resettlement Estates.
(c) Pending a decision to allocate space at 35 sq. ft. per adult to urge the Government to implement the policy, which has been adopted in principle, of counting children of 6 or over as adults for the purpose of room allocation, while retaining the policy of counting children of 10 or over as adults for the purpose of qualifying for relief of overcrowding.
(d) To endeavour to contain hawkers within specified areas in resettlement estates, and to ensure that hawking is conducted within the spaces allocated, and in the right manner.
(e) To seek the co-operation of the Government to have more Government and aided secondary (including technical) schools available within reasonable access of resettlement estates.
(f) To continue to develop all open spaces in existing and new estates for amenities and recreation, and to ensure that such spaces are ready for use on occupation of the estates, and to guard against their misuse for purposes other than recreation.
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