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香港政府
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DAILY INFORMATION BULLETIN
SUPPLEMENT
Speech by The Acting Governor, Sir Denys Roberta,
at the opening of Ci Man Commercial Complex
on Thursday, November 20, 1975
Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen,
During the last three years I have paid several visits to Oi Man
and have seen it develop steadily, from an area of bare hillside and rough
squatter settlements into the fine estate of which the Housing Authority
is so justifiably proud.
Anyone who walks through the handsome blocks which comprise it
will realize how far public housing has come, in appearance, in design
and in the standard of accommodation which is provided, since the first
resettlement blocks, with their communal washing places and latrines and
rudimentary social and commercial facilities, were built almost twenty
years ago.
Our earliest public housing was primarily intended to satisfy the
urgent needs of those who had lost their homes as a result of fire or natural
disaster, or who had to move in order to make way for essential public
projects; and it was successful in achieving these specific and limited
objectives. But it was not long before the huge population growth of the
nineteen fifties made it imperative for the Government to accept the main
responsibility for housing the large numbers who existed in
which were an affront to a self respecting community.
conditions
Undoubt-
For several years, the Government built resettlement estates and
low cost housing while the Housing Authority built its own estates.
edly, substantial progress was made and a heavy debt is owed to those who
strove so hard during this period to house those who needed it most.
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