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Friday, February 9, 1973

"To achieve all this will require careful planning as well as

development at a breakneck speed," he said. **The crunch will come in

the mid-Seventies."

During the period 1974-78, he said, the target population for

Tsuen Wan should go up by about 300,000 while in Sha Tin there should

be a tenfold population increase from 26,000 to 233,000.

"The Tuen Mun explosion follows a little later, but even there

a five fold increase from 38,000 to 190,000 is in this period the sort

of thing we should aim for."

Already the basic ingredients for the redevelopment of new towns

and population centres in the accessible parts of the rural areas

were beginning to emerge, he went on.

New Estates

Seven new estates were in the planning and he estimated that

between 20 and 30 more small estates would be needed over the next ten years.

Two new villages were also being examined with a view towards permanent

village development.

With regard to the problem of resettling small scale industries

which had been cleared from the urban areas but were not acceptable in

resettlement factories, the Commissioner said a "new initiative" was needed

to cope with this problem.

Land tenure would also have to be looked at and the problems of

pollution arising from present methods of disposing of agricultural waste ==

particularly from pigs and chickens -- would have to be tackled.

/Mr. Bray