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Wednesday, June 28, 1972

REOCCUPATION OF UNDAMAGED BUILDINGS SOON

The Director of Public Works, Mr. J.J. Robson, said today that it

should be possible to reoccupy many of the undamaged buildings in the Po Shan

Road and Kotewall Road areas within the next seven days.

Electricity will have been re-connected to most of the buildings by

this evening and full water supplies should be available within three days.

Gas and telephone connections will take longer but the Gas Company is making

arrangements for emergency bottled gas supplies if required.

Access to these properties by way of Conduit and Kotewall Roads is

the major problem but this should be solved by the middle of next week. Some

traffic restrictions may be necessary after that date but full details will be

announced when residents are advised which buildings can be re-occupied.

The Public Works Department has now completed the diversion of the

main storm water channels, which run through the area of land slip, and drainage

channels have been constructed above it to divert as much water as possible

away from the area.

Work is continuing on the clearance of the collapsed building but

this is a slow process because of the difficulties of access and the tangle

of reinforcing bare which have to be cut individually with oxy-acetylene burners

before the concrete rubble can be cleared.

going on in Kotewall and Conduit Roads.

Simultaneously, clearance work is

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