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Tuesday, October 4, 1977
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INSTALLATION OF STREET LIGHTS AT TWO LANDAU VILLAGES
Tenders for the installation of street lights at Tai Tei Tong
and Luk Tei Tong on Lantau Island will be invited later this week.
The Lantau project is the first in a series to be undertaken
by the New Territories Administration to
in N.T. villages
many of them remote
provide adequate street lighting
where there is no street
lighting at present.
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The scheme is to be financed from the N.T. Administration's
$5 million local public works vote.
A spokesman for the New Territories Administration said today
islanders in the two Lantau villages will feel safer when returning
home at night upon completion of the installation work around Christmas.
"The scheme is to provide adequate lighting from the main
road leading to the villages," he added.
The spokesman pointed out that the lighting will not only
ease the fear of villagers being victimised by criminals but also help
ensure pedestrian safety as the path leading to the two villages passes
over a number of streams.
Similar schemes will eventually. be implemented at Sha Tin,
Yuen Long, Tsuen Wan and Sai Kung. About 100 street lights will be
installed in villages in the four districts.
A P.W.D. Electrical Inspector, Mr. Ho To-ping, has been
seconded to the New Territories Administration Headquarters to
supervise the project.
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