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Friday, October 20, 1972
HOUSING DEVELOPMENT FOR N.T. RESIDENTS
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Another half a million people will be housed in Tsuen Wan on the
slopes above the town centre, in Kwai Chung and on Tsing Yi in the next
ten years.
In round numbers, half a million people will also be housed in
Sha Tin and the same number in Tuen Mun at the same time.
This was stated today by Mr. D.C. Bray, District Commissioner,
New Territories, at a luncheon meeting of the North Kowloon Rotary Club.
He said this housing provision will have to be made "if we are
to get through the ten-year housing programme the Governor announced last
Wednesday".
The New Territories Administration would improve the quality of the
environment and the housing and aim to provide 35 square feet of living space
a head, each family with its own self-contained home in a simple but
balanced urban environment, he said.
Mr. Bray pointed out that the overwhelming number of animals and
the amount of their wastes contribute a nammouth problem in the New Territories.
"In the north-west plains, the output of human and animal wastes
measured in human terms is equivalent to the output of over a million
human beings - and it all goes down our so-called stream courses without
any trace of sewage treatment.
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