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Wednesday, June 7, 1972
ready willingness of our bankers the Hong Kong Bank to assist us in exploring
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the various ways and means of raising non-Government finance and a senior
official of the Bank has been appointed to serve on the Group.
"Concurrently with this work, and subject to the provision of funds
by the Finance Committee, the Consulting Engineers are to be re-engaged and
will be instructed to push ahead as rapidly as possible with all the necessary
detailed route investigations, preparation of designs and the drawing up of
contract documents for the first two stages of the railway, that is, a line
commencing at Choi Hung, linking the Resettlement Estates of Wong Tai Sin,
Lok Fu and Shek Kip Mei with the Nathan Road Corridor and then running under
the harbour to the central business district of Hong Kong to terminate at
Western Market.
Surveys
"Additional surveys and extensive ground investigations will also
be undertaken by firms of specialist consultants and contractors as a matter
of urgency, as this will be an essential prerequisite to the preparation of
detailed designs for the civil engineering works.
"It is also intended to accelerate work on certain associated public
works, such as the reclamation of the area at Kowloon Bay intended for the Mass
Transit maintenance depots and the construction of relief roads, to ensure
that they are phased in with the Mass Transit construction programme.
"Finally, work will be started on drafting legislation to provide
for the compulsory acquisition of property (where this is unavoidable), the
alteration of streets and the compensation of those people whose property will
be interfered with in the course of construction. The preparation of this and
other enabling legislation will be supervised by the Steering Group, which
will also keep a watching brief on the consultants' activities and the progress
of the ground investigations and the various associated works I have just mentioned.
"In other
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