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PRH T 4000091

|香港政府 GIS新聞處

DAILY INFORMATION BULLETIN

Wednesday, October 25, 1972

MR. I.M. LIGHTBODY TO BE APPOINTED SECRETARY FOR HOUSING

Mr. I.M. Lightbody, the present Commissioner for Resettlement, is

to be appointed Secretary for Housing and will take charge of the new Housing Department.

During his speech to the opening session of the Legislative Council, the Governor announced plans to streamline the organisation of departments responsible for public housing so that they would be better able to cope with the major task of building homes for 1.8 million people during the next 10 years.

To give the programme support and thrust which it demands, we therefore

propose to make a fresh start," the Governor said.

The new Housing Department, which will be established on April 1,

1973, will be responsible, in cooperation with the Public Works Department, for carrying through all aspects of this public housing programme in Hong Kong, including town planning, construction and the administration of the new Estates.

The department will therefore be able to provide all services required

to implement the policy of the new Housing Authority which will shortly assume overall responsibility for public housing.

/Mr. Donald Liao,

Issued by Government Information Services, Beaconsfield House, Hong Kong. Tel: 5-233191