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Wednesday, January 3, 1973

LAND FOR INDUSTRIAL USE IN N.T.

About 200,000 square feet of land is now available for industrial

development in Tuen Muen (Castle Peak) and more may be provided should the

need arise.

Announcing details of available industrial land in the New Territories,

the District Commissioner, New Territories, the Hon. D.C. Bray, told the

Legislative Couneil today that a tentative sales programme had been drawn up

for a six-month period from April 1 to September 30 this year.

This included some five industrial sites in area 12 of Tuen Mun New

Town of between 10 and 15,000 square feet, with the possibility of one site of

over 100,000 square feet being made available.

Mr. Bray explained that Castle Peak and Sha Tin were not the principal

areas available for industrial development and there was no pressure for industri-

al sites in Castle Peak.

"But if this developed we could offer more," he said..

With regards to Sha Tin, Mr. Bray said that industrial land there

could be made available around March 1975, at the earliest, when some 13 acres

were expected to be ready.

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