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TUNG TAU 'FACE-LIFT" BEGINS
Friday, August 18, 1972
The Government's $1 million scheme to improve Tung Tau Resettlement
Estate in Kowloon begins today.
The Improvement Scheme, which will be in six phases, is aimed at
improving the living conditions of the tenants.
The face-lift will include the re-painting of all the 23 blocks and the
conversion of the ground floor open channels into underground drains.
The new drains will be of particular benefit to tenants of ground floor
premises, who at the moment, have to cross the open channels to get to their
shops.
Today's work centred on the demolition of all illegal structures in
front and at the back of shops in Blocks 2,3, 4, and 5.
The clearance operation will finish tomorrow, and work on the conversion
of the open channel starts on Monday. The re-painting of the four blocks will
take place in early September.
The first phase of the face-lift will take three months to complete, and it
it is expected that the improvement scheme for the entire estate will be completed
in about 18 months.
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