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Saturday, October 1, 1977
WORK SET TO START ON STAGE II
DEVELOPMENT OF TUI MIN HOI
Government will soon embark on another stage of a massive developmen
programme for the Tui Min Hoi area of Sai Kung to develop the area into a
self-contained rural township.
Engineering works will start later this year on land formation and
reclamation to provide more sites for new housing, improved road access and
recreational and community facilities.
At present, work is well underway on the first stage of development
which includes the construction of a main access road leading from Hiram's
Highway into the development area, and the formation of sites for a rural
public housing estate and a fishermen's housing estate.
The second stage will involve the provision of sites for an
extension of the main access road along the foreshore, a sewage treatment
plant, an abattoir, a sand depot, and a marine fueling station and an ice
storage plant to meet the needs of Sai Kung's large fishing community.
Eighty-six sites will be created in the area for New Territories
"exempted houses"
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those not more than 700 square feet and three storeys
There will also be a car park and public open spaces.
To make way for the second stage of development, about 12,250 square
metres of agricultural land in Tui Min Hoi area will have to be resumed, and
a notice of the resumption has been published in the Government Gazette.
A New Territories Administration spokesman said today the landowners
would be offered cash compensation or land exchanges.
The Government would also pay ex-gratia allowances for poultry-
breeders and cultivators, as well as compensation for fruit trees, pine trees.
crops, and the removal of fences, pipe-lines, water tanks, rubble walls and
graves, he said.
The spokesman