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Thursday, March 16, 1972
GOVERNMENT URGED TO IMPROVE AMENITIES IN N.T.
Hon. Oswald Cheung Would Like Improvements
In Low Cost Housing, Medical Facilities
The Hon. Oswald Cheung today urged Government to consider the improvement
of amenities to people in the New Territories.
He also asked Government to look into the potential in housing and
industry and the use for recreation of the New Territories.
Mr. Cheung was speaking in the Legislative Council today when the debate
on the Budget was resumed,
"The New Territories is one of our greatest assets, and it is of its
proper development and the enhancement of its tremendous value that I rise to
speak today," he said.
He would like to see improvements made in relation to low cost housing,
water supply, street lighting, telephone communications, garbage disposal, medical
facilities, secondary schools and roads.
He pointed out that Government had already announced a low cost housing
estate in Sha Tin with greatly improved amenities.
"But apart from that, what of other areas such as Cheung Chau, Tai 0,
Fanling and Taipo," he asked.
They had not so far had subsidized housing and there was a need for
low cost housing schemes in those places even if on a smaller scale than that
contemplated for Shatin, he said.
/On the supply
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