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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1975
SAM SHING HUI RESIDENTS MOVING TO MAKE WAY FOR HIGHWAY
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RESIDENTS OF SAM SHING HUI, TUEN MUN HAVE BEGUN VACATING THEIR SHOPS AND HOMES TO MAKE WAY FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE TUEN MUN TSUEN WAN HIGHWAY AND OTHER PROJECTS.
SOME HAVE ALREADY BEGUN RE-ESTABLISHING THEIR BUSINESSES AND TRADES IN A RESITE AREA ON MOUSE ISLAND:OTHERS WILL OCCUPY AN ADJACENT RESITE AREA SET ASIDE FOR DOATYARDS; AND SOME ARE MOVING INTO NEARLY PUBLIC HOUSING.
THE MAJOR PART OF THE MOVE IS TO MOUSE ISLAND (FORMERLY AN ISLAND, BUT NOW JOINED TO RECLAIMED LAND) WHERE ABOUT 150 SITES RANGING IN AREAS FROM 100 3Q. FT. TO 4,000 SQ. FT. HAVE BEEN ALLOCATED. DALLOTING TOOK PLACE ON DECEMBER 1.
BESIDES MAKING WAY FOR THE HIGHWAY, THE VACATED SITE WILL BE USED TO FUILD A RESIDENTIAL AND COMMERCIAL COMPLEX. A TYPHOON SHELTER WILL ALSO BE CONSTRUCTED.
ALTHOUGH THE 3,000-STRONG SAM SHING HUT COMMUNITY WILL BE DISPERSED INITIALLY, ITS MEMBERS WILL BE GIVEN THE OPPORTUNITY LATER TO GET TOGETHER AGAIN WHEN THE SITE THEY ARE NOW VACATING IS DEVELOPED, THEY WILL DE AILE TO PARTICIPATE IN A RESTRICTED TENDER FOR THE SHOPS WHICH ARE TO DE QUILT.
SAM SHING HUI RESIDENTS, INCLUDING MR. AU KUK-MING, THE VILLAGE REPRESENTATIVE, HAVE VISITED MOUSE I AND TO TAKE A CLOSE LOOK AT THEIR SITES AND WATCH THE: BEING MARKED OUT BY THE DISTRICT OFFICE STAFF. THEY WERE ACOMPANIED BY FR. TONY BENCLTT, DISTRICT OFFICER TUEN MUN.
COMPENSATION UP TO A MAXIMUM OF 20,000 PER ELIGIBLE EUSINESS WILL BE PAID TO THE DEPARTING VILLAGERS BASED ON THE SQUARE FOOTAGE OF THE PREMISES THEY HAD EN OCCUPYING. A FIRST PAYMENT OF 32,000 TO COVER REMOVAL EXPENSES AND THE COSTS OF CONSTRUCTING NEW PREMISES 13 TO BE MADE NEXT WEEK.
BUSINESS OPERATORS ARE ALLOWED TO CONSTRUCT THEIR BUILDINGS OF BRICK IN VIEW OF THE LENGT OF TIME THEY ARE LIKELY TO OCCUPY THE RESITE AREA. A HEIGHT RESTRICTION OF 13-1/2 FEET HAS BEEN WAIVED AND PREMISES CAN I BUILT UP TO 16 FEST TO INCLUDE COCKLOFTS FOR BUSINESSME! AND THEIR FAMILIES TO LIVE IN.
MR. BENNETT SAID MANY MEETINGS HAD TAKEN PLACE IN CONNECTION WITH THE CLEARANCE AND HE TRAISED THE CO-OPERATIVE SPIRIT WHICH HAC DEVELOPED BETWEEN THE DISTRICT OFFICE AND THE VILLAGE REI RESENTATIVES.
+THE REPRESENTATIVES HAVE CONTRIBUTED A GREAT DEAL BY WAY OF PRACTICAL PROPOSALS AND THIS HAS DEEN A SIGNIFICANT FACTOR IN OVERCOMING ANY DIFFICULTIES,+ HE STATED.
THIS IS THE FIRST MAJOR CLEARANCE IN CONNECTION WITH THE DUILDING OF THE NE.. TOWN ( TUEN RUN, BETTER KNOWN, PERHAPS, BY ITS FORMER NAME CASTLE PEAK WHOSE PRESENT POPULATION OF 40,000 IS EXPECTED TO GRO TO 430,000 BY 1935. THE TOWN WILL EE DUILT LARGELY ON LAND : CLARED FROM CASTLE PEAK HAY.
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