SUNDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1988
HAD
ALREADY
REGARDING LARGE-SCALE HEAVY INDUSTRIES, MR WAN SAID THAT A CEMENT PLANT AND A STATION, POWER FROM THE CASTLE PEAK
A FIVE-HECTARE PIECE OF RECLAIMED FACTORY, CONSTRUCTION WORK OVER
BEGUN FOR
UP
BOATYARDS LAND IN AREA 40 SAWMILLS.
APART BRICK
SETTING
AND
"AT THE SAME TIME, THE GOVERNMENT HAS PLANS IN HAND TO 70 HECTARES OF LAND IN AREA 38 FOR INDUSTRIES WITH WATERFRONT ACCESS."
DEVELOP REQUIRING LARGE SITES
MR WAN SAID THERE WERE MORE THAN AREAS NINE AND 12.
WORKERS 30,000
EMPLOYED
IN
THE
ALTHOUGH 39 PER CENT OF THEM WERE LIVING OUTSIDE TUEN MUN, FIGURE HAD DECREASED WHEN COMPARED TO THE 47 PER CENT FIGURE IN 1985.
MR WAN SAID HE EXPECTED THAT BY THE MID-1990'S, TUEN MUN WOULD FOR THE HAVE A POPULATION OF 550,000 AND A PROVISION OF 100,000 JOBS WORKFORCE WHEN THE DISTRICT WAS FULLY DEVELOPED.
LIVING ENVIRONMENT OF SQUATTERS IMPROVED
* *
A TOTAL OF 8 441 SQUATTERS FROM 2 110
FAMILIES
HAVE IMPROVED то PUBLIC RENTAL HOUSING FLATS THROUGH THE GENERAL WAITING LIST IN THE FIRST TEN MONTHS OF THIS YEAR.
THEIR LIVING ENVIRONMENT BY MOVING
FLATS IN NEW TOWNS, MOST OF THESE FAMILIES WERE REHOUSED TO
CHOICE OF SUCH AS SHA TIN, JUNK BAY AND TSING YI, ACCORDING TO THEIR LOCALITY, A HOUSING SPOKESMAN SAID TODAY.
THE AVERAGE WAITING TIME FOR PUBLIC NEWS TOWNS IS ABOUT FIVE OR SIX YEARS.
HOUSING RENTAL
IN
THESE
APPLICATION
PUBLIC
THE
RENTAL
UNDER THE CURRENT POLICY, SQUATTERS WILL HAVE TO SURRENDER
IN ONCE THEIR STRUCTURE THEY LIVE
FOR
HOUSING IS SUCCESSFUL.
J
THE HOUSING DEPARTMENT WILL IMMEDIATELY DEMOLISH THE WHENEVER POSSIBLE TO PREVENT RE-OCCUPATION.
STRUCTURE
STILL
IF THE STRUCTURE IS THE SPOKESMAN SAID THAT HOWEVER,
STRUCTURES, THE PARTLY OCCUPIED OR STRUCTURALLY LINKED WITH ADJACENT DEPARTMENT WILL BOARD UP THE SURRENDERED PARTITION OR STRUCTURE AS WILL BE UNSAFE TO CARRY OUT DEMOLITION.
IT
/DURING THE