CO129-614-2 Visit of Sir Patrick Abercrombie to advise on town planning 28-11-1946 - 5-12-1947 — Page 2

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his telegram at the Governos suggets

Planning

that

the

services

of an expert in Development

for

a visit to

Home Kane

to

advise

a

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of Victoria

should be sought

planning and

development, mainly in the two cities

and Rawlean, and that all

expenses for the visit should be met from

C.D.TW. Funds.

The

Advisory

Report of the Building Reconstruction

Committee 1946,

shows that

town planning is urgently necessary,

the overcrowding of chinese

to relieve the

dwellings, and the

time

seems ripe for

general development in the Colony in this

period of reconstruction.

The proposals for

the reclamation of the

Southern shore of

Deep Bay should, I think, be connected

with this project which is

that cold be

Suitably financed from Have Kang's allocation

of C.D.TW. Funds,

Fran

the

last

paragraph of the telegram

it

world

appear thast an

experts of some

standing

is necessary,

and

perhaps Sei

Frank Stockdale

This

world kindly advise ai

and on the project generally.

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