HELP RUN YOUR BUILDING PROPERLY
TUESDAY, MAY 7, 1974.
- MR. LIGHTBODY
THE SECRETARY FOR HOUSING, MR. 1AN LIGHTBODY, TODAY SOUNDED A WARNING TO FLAT OWNERS WHO REFUSED TO PAY THEIR SHARE TOWARDS THE RUNNING AND MAINTENANCE COSTS OF THEIR MULTI-STOREY BUILDINGS.
ADDRESSING REPRESENTATIVES OF MULTI-STOREY BUILDINGS OWNERS CORPORATIONS DURING A TOUR THIS MORNING, MR. LIGHTBODY SAID: +VE WANT TO SEE WHAT WE CAN DO TO HELP THESE CORPORATIONS DO A GOOD JOB, AND THIS MUST INCLUDE FINDING SOME WAY TO PERSUADE ALL OWNERS THAT THEY MUST PAY THEIR SHARE TOWARDS KEEPING THEIR PROPERTY IN GOOD ORDER.+
MR. LIGHTBODY'S VISIT WAS TO THE WING WAH BUILDING IN CHEUNG SHA WAN ROAD, THE FERRY POINT COMPLEX AT JORDAN ROAD WHICH HAS A POPULATION OF ABOUT 39,000, AND TO CHUNGKING MANSION AT TSIM SHA TSUI.
MR. LIGHTBODY WAS FULL OF PRAISE FOR THE GOOD WORK BEING DONE BY THE MULTI-STOREY BUILDINGS OWNERS CORPORATIONS. +THEY ARE DOING A VERY ESSENTIAL JOB, AND THE COMMUNITY SHOULD BE GRATEFUL TO THOSE PUBLIC-SPIRITED MEN AND WOMEN WHO TAKE ON THESE TASKS, HE SAID.
+TO A VERY LARGE EXTENT A GOOD LIVING ENVIRONMENT DEPENDS ON THEIR CONTRIBUTION, AND I HOPE ALL THEIR CO-OWNERS VILL SUPPORT THEM IN THE WORK.
+THE DIFFICULTIES SEEM TO ARISE WHEN OTHER OWNERS IN THESE LARGE BUILDINGS REFUSE TO PAY THEIR CONTRIBUTION TOWARDS RUNNING AND MAINTENANCE COSTS, AND THIS IS MOST UNREASONABLE, AND UNFAIR TO THEIR OFFICE-BEARERS,+ HE SAID.
MR. LIGHTBODY CITED A RECENT CASE IN UHICH AN OUNERS CORPORATION WAS TOLD BY THE BUILDING AUTHORITY THAT CERTAIN ESSENTIAL PLUMBING AND DRAINAGE WORK MUST BE DONE. THE CORPORATION APPOINTED AN ARCHITECT AND HE PRODUCED All ESTIMATE OF COST. HOWEVER, MOST OF THE OUNERS REFUSED TO PAY THEIR SHARE AND THIS ESSENTIAL WORK THEREFORE HAD TO BE DONE BY THE BUILDING AUTHORITY, FOR THE TIME BEING AT GOVERNMENT EXPENSE.
+THIS IS THE SORT OF SITUATION WE MUST AVOID IN FUTURE,+
MR. LIGHTBODY STRESSED.
DURING HIS THREE-HOUR VISIT TO THE THREE BUILDING COMPLEXES MR. LIGHTBODY WAS BRIEFED ON THE MANAGEMENT, SECURITY AND CLEANING ASPECTS OF THE BUILDINGS.