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Viednesday, July 25, 1973

SHEK KIP MEI CONVERSION BEGINS

Conversion and renovation work has begun on six blocks of the lower

Shek Kip Mei Estate which were vacated under the first phase of the Shek

Kip Mei rehousing scheme.

On completion, in about eight months, these blocks will provide

much larger self-contained living units with their own water supply, kitchen,

lavatory and private balcony which are lacking in all present Shek Kip Mei

blocks.

Another 15 blocks in the estate will be progressively converted

as the rehousing project continues.

Eight other blocks will be demolished to make way for a large

commercial centre and a link road.

In the mean time, the second phase of the rehousing scheme, which

began in May, is progressing smoothly. Of the 800 families of blocks 3 and 4

affected, more than three quarters have taken up flats in the upper Pak Tin

Estate.

All 25 shopkeepers involved have applied for shop premises in the new

estate and the letting of these is now under way.

The current phase of the rehousing operation is expected to be

completed by the end of next month by which time about cne quarter of the

62,000 Shek Kip Mei tenants will have moved to better housing in upper Pak Tin

Estate,

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