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Saturday, July 22, 1972
Architects have now been appointed in respect of Blocks A and B,
Po Shan Mansion, at 10-16 Po Shan Road and additionally the Public Works
Department are undertaking soil investigations which should produce
information which will be evaluated by the end of August. The reoccupation
of 53 and 55 Conduit Road must await the decision in respect of Po Shan
Mansion.
The spokesman said that the appointment of an architect in respect
of the two blocks at Emerald Gardens, No. 36, Kotewall Road, is awaited, but
one of these blocks is badly damaged and has been shored.
Since work cannot be commenced on this damaged block while the
clearance operation at Kotewall Court continues and since repair will in
any event be difficult, it is unlikely that this building can be re-occupied
in the near future, he said.
In the meantime, the spokesman said the clearance and body recovery
operation at Kotewall Court continues on a 24-hour basis and the work is
proceeding as quickly as is possible.
He said that because this operation is primarily one of body
recovery and also because the work is both difficult and dangerous, it is
necessarily a time-consuming operation. Nevertheless, 31 bodies have been
recovered since the 23rd June, most of these in the last two weeks.
Release time: 2.30 p.m.