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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1987
GOVT GETTING ON TOP OF SQUATTER PROBLEM
THE GOVERNMENT IS NOW GETTING ON TOP OF THE PROBLEM OF SQUATTER AREAS AND IT IS HOPED THAT THIS PROBLEM WILL HAVE BEEN DEALT WITH IN A FEW YEARS' TIME, THE GOVERNOR, SIR DAVID WILSON, SAID TODAY
(MONDAY).
SPEAKING TO REPORTERS AT THE END OF A VISIT ΤΟ EASTERN DISTRICT, SIR DAVID SAID IT WOULD BE POSSIBLE TO MOVE PEOPLE OUT OF THE SQUTTER AREAS INTO NEW HOUSING DEVELOPMENTS.
HE ADDED THAT HE WAS IMPRESSED BY THE MODERN BUILDINGS, FROM THE MIDDLE CLASS HOUSING LIKE TAI KOO SHING, ITS SHOPPING PLAZA AND THE ENORMOUS IMPROVEMENT IN TRANSPORT IN EASTERN DISTRICT.
HE SAID: "I CAME BY THE MTR. THAT'S A VERY EFFICIENT AND VERY QUICK WAY OF TRAVELLING. THAT TRANSPORT IMPROVEMENT MEANS THAT THIS AREA IS GOING TO DEVELOP VERY RAPIDLY OVER THE NEXT FEW YEARS AS A RESIDENTIAL AREA."
SIR DAVID SAID HE WAS ALSO IMPRESSED BY THE HARD WORK OF THE EASTERN DISTRICT BOARD IN CREATING A SENSE OF COMMUNITY WITH THE DISTRICT FESTIVAL WHICH STARTED YESTERDAY.
"THAT, I AM SURE, IS VERY IMPORTANT TO CREATE THE SENSE OF COMMUNITY WHICH YOU GET BOTH AT THE DISTRICT BOARD LEVEL AND IN THINGS LIKE THE MUTUAL AID COMMITTEES WHICH I HAVE ALSO BEEN VISITING THIS AFTERNOON,' HE NOTED.
ASKED TO COMMENT ON THE PROGRESS OF INVESTIGATION BY THE POLICE INTO THE BOMB INCIDENT IN TAI KOO SHING, SIR DAVID SAID IT WOULD BE MORE SATISFACTORY IF THE POLICE HAD DISCOVERED WHO WAS RESPONSIBLE.
"IT WAS AN HORRENDOUS THING TO DO TO SET OFF A BOMB IN AN AREA WHERE INNOCENT PEOPLE WERE WALKING AROUND WITH CHILDREN. THE LAST OF THE PEOPLE INJURED, ONE CHILD, HAS ONLY NOW JUST COMB OUT OF HOSPITAL.'
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NOTING THAT THE AUTHORITIES HAD NOT MANAGED TO FIND THE CULPRIT, SIR DAVID SAID THE POLICE BELIEVED THAT IT WAS THE WORK OF A CRANK.
"I ONLY HOPE THAT THAT CRANK WOULD NOT TRY ΤΟ DO THE SAME THING AGAIN," HE NOTED.
HE ADDED THAT THE POLICE HAD INVESTIGATED A LARGE NUMBER OF PEOPLE, BUT THEY HAD NOT MANAGED TO PIN THE BLAME FOR THIS ON ANYBODY IN A WAY WHICH HAD ALLOWED THEM TO PUT FORWARD CHARGES.
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