WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1989
2
NEW HAHO BUILDING TOPPED OUT
* * * *
ON COMPLETION
OF THE NEW
HOUSING AUTHORITY
HEADQUARTERS
WILL
FLATS
BUILDING NEXT YEAR. THE HOUSING AUTHORITY AND HOUSING DEPARTMENT
WELL-EQUIPPED FOR THE IMMENSE TASK OF SEEING THAT A MILLION ARE BUILT BY THE END OF THE CENTURY TO HOUSE THE PEOPLE OF HONG KONG,
BE
THE REMARKS WERE MADE BY THE CHAIRMAN OF THE HOUSING AUTHORITY,
NEW HAHQ SIR DAVID AKERS-JONES, AT THE TOPPING-OUT CEREMONY OF THE
HALL TODAY BUILDING AND URBAN COUNCIL FAT KWONG STREET INDOOR GAMES (WEDNESDAY).
OF THE MR PANG THE
THE CEREMONY WAS FERFORMED BY SIR DAVID, THE CHAIRMAN URBAN COUNCIL, MR H.M.G. FORSGATE, THE DIRECTOR OF HOUSING,
THE
JAMES OF URBAN SERVICES, MR
AND SO, YUK-LING.
DIRECTOR CHAIRMAN OF HSIN CHONG HOLDINGS (HK) LTD, DR GEOFFREY YEH.
SIR DAVID POINTED OUT THAT A NEW
FROM THE EXPANSION OF STAFF. THERE BECAUSE APART INCREASE IN WORK.
HEADQUARTERS
WAS A
WAS NEEDED TREMENDOUS
"WE
MOVED INTO
BUT
HAVE
FAR
1976 OUR PRESENT BUILDING IN OUTGROWN IT AND HAVE MANY STAFF SCATTERED IN OTHER OFFICES.
WE
YEAR "HOUSING PRODUCTION IN 1976 WAS ABOUT 12 000 FLATS; THIS
1.8 WERE
MILLION WILL BUILD
THERE OVER 50 000 FLATS. IN 1976
MILLION," SIR RESIDENTS OF PUBLIC HOUSING; THIS YEAR THERE ARE 2.7 DAVID EXPLAINED.
THE NEW HAHQ IS BEING BUILT ON A 6 700 SQUARE METRE SITE AT FAT URBAN KWONG STREET ORIGINALLY ZONED FOR USE BY THE URBAN COUNCIL. THE COUNCIL HOWEVER AGREED TO RELEASE THE SITE TO THE HOUSING WHICH AUTHORITY AND URBAN COUNCIL.
WAS
THEN
DEVELOPED AS A JOINT
VENTURE BETWEEN
THE
AUTHORITY HOUSING
OF
то ENSURE THAT THIS ARRANGEMENT WOULD NOT RESULT IN A LOSS RECREATIONAL FACILITIES FOR THE PEOPLE LIVING IN THE AREA, THE HOUSING AUTHORITY INCLUDED THE URBAN COUNCIL'S INDOOR GAMES HALL ON THE UPPER FLOORS OF THE SOUTHERN PORTION OF THE BUILDING.
ALSO
INDOOR SPEAKING AT THE FUNCTION, MR FORSGATE SAID, "THE GAMES HALL, WHICH IS OF THE POPULAR STANDARD MARK IV TYPE, WILL BE THE THIRD ONE FOR THE RESIDENTS IN THE KOWLOON CITY DISTRICT, MAKING A TOTAL OF 28 IN THE URBAN AREA.
"THE FACILITIES PROVIDED INCLUDE A MULTI-PURPOSE MAIN ARENA FOR ACTIVE BALL GAMES, 3 AIR-CONDITIONED SQUASH COURTS, A FITNESS ROOM AND A DANCE STUDIO WITH ALL THE NECESSARY ANCILLARY FACILITIES," HE ADDED.
ABOUT
200 GUESTS
ATTENDED TODAY'S CEREMONY.
THEY
INCLUDED
OF OFFICIALS DISTRICT BOARD
MEMBERS OF THE HOUSING AUTHORITY AND THE URBAN COUNCIL, THE HOUSING DEPARTMENT AND URBAN SERVICES DEPARTMENT, MEMBERS AND A HOST OF OTHER DIGNITARIES CONNECTED WITH HOUSING.
/THE GUESTS