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should be that detailed planning begins in the spring in the Architectural Office of the Public Works Department, with such assistance as the Urban Services Department can give in the form of the brochures collected from all over the world. The detailed planning lies with the Architectural Office, and I have no doubt that when it has reached a certain stage, I shall be empowered to put it before the Parks, Recreation and Amenities Select Committee.
MR. SALES: --Thank you.
(4) MR. B. A. BERNACCHI asked the following question:
(a) Is the Chairman or the Commissioner for Resettlement aware that there is no secondary i.e. middle or technical school in Chai Wan Estate and that the population of Shau Kei Wan is fully sufficient to demand the two secondary schools in Shau Kei Wan without having to cope with secondary education for residents of Chai Wan also?
(b) What is the Resettlement Department and/or the Public Works Department doing about this situation, in particular are any secondary schools planned to be built in Chai Wan?
THE COMMISSIONER FOR RESETTLEMENT replied as follows:
The answer to the first part of the question is that there are no secondary schools in Chai Wan Estate, but there are five between Shau Kei Wan and the top of Chai Wan Hill.
The answer to the second part of the question is that there is no room for a secondary school within the boundaries of Chai Wan Resettlement Estate. I understand, however, that several such schools are planned in the vicinity.
MR. BERNACCHI :-Mr. Chairman, several supplementaries--the first. The five secondary schools between Shau Kei Wan and the top of Chai Wan Hill. Are they catering for the residents of Chai Wan or Shau Kei Wan?
COMMISSIONER FOR RESETTLEMENT: -I understand both, Mr. Chairman.
MR. BERNACCHI:-Were they designed to cater for the residents of Chai Wan or were they erected to cater for the residents of Shau Kei Wan?
COMMISSIONER FOR RESETTLEMENT:-I really do not know, Mr. Chairman, but I should think both.
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MR. BERNACCHI:-Can the Commissioner give any indication of the number of students at these five schools in all?
COMMISSIONER FOR RESETTLEMENT: --No, Sir, I am afraid I have not got that information.
MR. BERNACCHI:-Has the Commissioner the information as to how many, if any, are technical schools as opposed to middle schools?
COMMISSIONER FOR RESETTLEMENT:-One, I understand, is a secondary modern school and I believe the other four are conventional secondary schools. I may be wrong in that. St. Basil's is a secondary modern. I was given to understand that that Salesian school is an ordinary secondary, but I may be wrong.
MR. BERNACCHI: Coming to the answer to the second part. In area seven I think I am right in saying that there are proposed further resettlement multi-storey blocks?
COMMISSIONER FOR RESETTLEMENT: -Yes, site formation has already begun.
MR. BERNACCHI:----Cannot a school or schools, secondary schools I am talking of, be erected in area seven?
COMMISSIONER FOR RESETTLEMENT:-Not within that part of area seven which is set aside for the resettlement estate. There is a site reserved for a school adjacent to that part of Area 7 set aside for the extension of the Chai Wan Estate, but whether that is within area seven or not I am afraid I do not know.
MR. BERNACCHI:-But then perhaps resettlement of a limited number of sites in cottage areas could be done for the purpose of secondary schools. The resettlement people being resettled going into the new multi-storey houses in multi-storey blocks in area seven.
COMMISSIONER FOR RESETTLEMENT:-I presume that is possible, but we shall not get any resettlement accommodation in area seven for a few years.
MR. BERNACCHI-I understand that the cottage area on the ground covers considerably larger acreage than the Chai Wan multi-storey resettlement at present. Is that so?
COMMISSIONER FOR RESETTLEMENT:-Mr. Chairman, if that supplementary arises from the original question, I should think it probably is so.
MR. BERNACCHI:-Then you say that an objection arises, or I gather you say an objection arises as to my suggestion because the area
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