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Tuesday, January 2, 1973

"We have considered providing in the estates such facilities as

clinics, schools, welfare centres, children's playgrounds, markets, cafes

and workshops, providing employment to the residents," Mr. Ng said.

He pointed out that the estates would be constructed in stages and

several sites for these estates had been earmarked.

He disclosed that housing project was expected to start in March

this year when the first 30 living units would be built in Peng Chau.

"Boat squatters and others," Mr. Ng went on, "will be moved from

the existing shanty fishing villages to the estates in stages."

He said that the rural housing scheme would be implemented in such

places as Tai Po, Yuen Long and Sai Kung in the New Territories in due course.

"This series of projects," he said, "reflects the Government's deter-

mination to improve the living conditions of the rural population, apart from

bringing about a face-lift in the New Territories and the various outlying

islanda."

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