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is a humanitarian move to clear people from areas that we conceive to be at risk. I hope that is a purpose which has Mr. Hu's approval.
Mr. Hu:--I thank you very much, Mr. Chairman.
(8) MR. JOHN MACKENZIE asked the following question:-
As the Royal Hong Kong Jockey Club is unable to provide finance for the Tai Wan Park Swimming Pool (Cat. "B" of Public Works programme), may this Council be assured that funds for this, and for the Chai Wan (Cat. "C"), Hammer Hill (Cat. "B") and Kowloon Park (Cat. "C") Swimming Pools, all scheduled for completion in 1974-75, will be available from Government? May we anticipate that there will be no change in the completion dates for these important public amenities.
(Note: The reply to question (8) was included in the reply to question (4)).
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area is implemented, now acts mainly as a supplier of primary foodstuffs to hotels, restaurants and food caterers. Its reprovisioning is therefore low on the list of priorities in the market building programme, which must concentrate on providing up-to-date marketing facilities in those areas where they are most urgently required by the residents.
It is, however, intended to seize the first available opportunity to reprovision the cooked food bazaar in a more hygienic and environmentally acceptable form.
DR. HUANG:--I am very grateful to Mr. LOBO for this answer. I wonder if Mr. LOBO can give me an assurance that when there is an opportunity that those cooked food bazaars can be removed as soon as possible because the environment for those bazaars is very, very unhygienic.
MR. LOBO:--Well, I am sure that Mr. CHEONG-LEEN is also taking a note of that because cooked food stalls come under Mr. CHEONG-LEEN'S Select Committee. But as far as I am concerned, I am very much in favour of that.
(9) DR. DENNY M. H. HUANG asked the following question:-
When was the market at the junction of Canton Road and Peking Road constructed?
Is there any plan to replace this with a more up-to-date one and when?
MR. R. H. LOBO, CHAIRMAN OF THE MARKETS AND ABATTOIRS SELECT COMMITTEE, replied as follows:
The market building at the junction of Canton Road and Peking Road, known as Tsim Sha Tsui Market, was constructed in 1911. The cooked food bazaar beside the market was added soon after the war, but the exact date cannot be established.
There are no plans at present to reprovision the market itself. Over the years, as a result of the demolition of residential buildings in the neighbourhood served by the market and their replacement by commercial premises, the retail marketing area of Tsim Sha Tsui has shifted to the east of Nathan Road, where it centres on the numerous fresh provision shops in Granville Road. The old market, which will be further isolated from the main residential sector of Tsim Sha Tsui when a new road layout for the
(10) DR. DENNY M. H. HUANG asked the following question:-
Will the Commissioner of Resettlement please inform the Council:
(a) Is he aware of the fact that the Tai Hing Restaurant of the Kwun Tong Resettlement Estate, No. 54, 55, 56, 57 and 58, has been doing unlicensed business for nearly a year?
(b) Has his Department issued the owner of the said restaurant a warning to evict the premises because he failed to meet the Council's requirements—a measure the Department should take under an agreement between the Resettlement Management Select Committee and the Food and Food Premises Select Committee of this Council in 1970 and on which I have reminded him twice in last three months?
MR. C. K. CHAN, CHAIRMAN OF THE RESETTLEMENT SELECT COMMITTEE, replied as follows:
The Tai Hing Restaurant at Kwun Tong Estate has held a valid general restaurant licence since 13th February, 1963.
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