HONG KONG HOUSING AUTHORITY DESA⭑
PRESS RELEASE
新聞稿
Sunday, August 31, 1975
HOUSING AUTHORITY SPENDS $350,000 ON NEW GARDEN
The Housing Authority has spent $350,000 to improve the living
environment at one of its older estates, Wang Tau Hom,
Under the improvement project an open area in the estate previously
occupied by more than 280 hawkers and illegal structures is developed into
a garden.
The area measuring about 33,600 sq. ft, eonsists of two basketball
courts, two children's playgrounds and a large sitting-out area planted with
a mixture of evergreen and deciduous trees, shrubs and flowers.
The estate, constructed more than 10 years ago, houses 66,000 people
in 26 blocks. The new facility was designed and built, and will be maintained
and controlled, by the Housing Authority.
The children's playgrounds have been equipped with swings, slides and
a merry-go-round, all provided and installed by officers and men of the
Composit Ordinance Depot of the British Army.
All genuine hawkers of long standing affected by the redevelopment
have been resited elsewhere in the estate.
The garden, Wan Chui Yuen (Evergreen Garden), will be officially
opened at 3 p.m. on Wednesday (September 3) by the Chairman of the Housing
Authority Management Committee, Mr. R.H. Lobo.
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