TUESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1985
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CLEARANCE OPERATION IN WAN CHAI
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ELEVEN ILLEGAL STRUCTURES AT THE REAR LANE OF TAI WONG STREET EAST IN WAN CHAI WERE REMOVED IN A CLEARANCE OPERATION THIS (TUESDAY) MORNING.
FIVE OF THE STRUCTURES WERE FOR DOMESTIC PURPOSES AND THE REST FOR STORAGE.
SEVEN PEOPLE WERE AFFECTED, FIVE OF WHOM HAVE BEEN RE-HOUSED IN PUBLIC HOUSING ESTATES OR HOSTELS. TWO WERE FOUND TO BE INELIGIBLE FOR RE-HOUSING.
TODAY'S OPERATION WAS JOINTLY ORGANISED BY THE WAN CHAI DISTRICT OFFICE, LANDS DEPARTMENT, URBAN SERVICES DEPARTMENT, FIRE SERVICES DEPARTMENT AND THE POLICE.
IT WAS ALSO THE THIRD CLEARANCE OPERATION CARRIED OUT THIS YEAR TO IMPROVE THE ENVIRONMENT IN THE DISTRICT.
TSUEN WAN GROWTH SHOWN IN EXHIBITS
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DEVELOPMENTS IN TSUEN WAN WILL BE ILLUSTRATED THROUGH MODELS PHOTOGRAPHS AND CHINESE PAINTINGS AT EXHIBITIONS TO BE HELD IN THE TSUEN WAN TOWN HALL FROM TOMORROW TO SUNDAY.
THE EXHIBITIONS, ORGANISED BY THE TSUEN WAN DISTRICT BOARD, ARE PART OF THE BOARD'S YEAR-END ACTIVITIES.
SOME 50 CHINESE PAINTINGS BY LOCAL ARTISTS FEATURING LANDSCAPE, SCENERIES AND STREET SCENES OF TSUEN WAN, WILL BE ON DISPLAY AT THE EXHIBITION GALLERY OF THE TOWN HALL.
AN OPENING CEREMONY WILL BE HELD AT 2.30 PM TOMORROW (WEDNESDAY), WITH THE DISTRICT OFFICER, MR ANGUS MIU THE TSUEN WAN DISTRICT BOARD CHAIRMAN, MR CHAU HOW-CHEN- AND THE KWAI CHUNG AND TSING YI DISTRICT BOARD CHAIRMAN, MR HO TUNG-CHING, OFFICIATING.
ANOTHER EXHIBITION ORGANISED BY THE TSUEN WAN NEW TOWN DEVELOPMENT OFFICE TO SHOW THE PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT OF TSUEN WAN SINCE THE 1950'S WILL BE HELD IN THE TSUEN WAN TOWN HALL MAIN FOYER.
PHOTOGRAPHS, STATIC MODELS, MAPS AND DIAGRAMS WILL ILLUSTRATE PAST EVENTS LEADING TO THE BUILDING UP OF THE PRESENT TSUEN WAN NEW TOWN.
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