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Sunday, January 21, 1973

FIRST BLOCK OF HO LAN TIN ESTATE READY FOR OCCUPATION

Nearby Of Man Estate Is Taking Shape

The latest government low-cost housing project

the Ho Man

Tin Estate is nearly completed and the first of the estate's eight

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blocks is now ready for occupation.

Housing Authority staff are finalising arrangements for

letting the first 370 flats to applicants at the end of this month.

The other seven blocks, containing another 3,700 flats,

will be ready in a few months.

On completion, the estate will be able to accommodate

about 26,300 people.

It will have marketing, shopping and communal facilities, in

addition to schools and kindergartens.

Not far from the estate another scheme which will provide

low-cost housing to more than 46,000 people is taking shape.

The first blocks of the huge Housing Authority estate - the

Oi Man Estate will be ready for occupation at the end of this year or

early next year.

Its 12 housing blocks, ranging from seven to 22 storeys high,

will provide about 6,200 much needed flats for Hong Kong's middle-income group.

Like the Ho Man Tin Estate, Oi Man Estate will have the

marketing, shopping and other facilities.

A bus terminus will be built in the estate to serve its residents.

Note to Editors: An aerial photograph showing the two estates is

available for collection from the G.I.S. press room.

Release time: 3.00 p.m.