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Monday, October 15, 1973

ESTATE FLATS FURNISHINGS REFLECT HIGHER LIVING STANDARDS

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Anyone who wants first hand examples of the rising living

standards in public housing estates, and in the community in general,

should compare the interiors of flats there today with what they were

ten years ago, said Mr. Ian Lightbody, Secretary for Housing, today

(October 15).

He was speaking at the opening of the Australian Carpet and

Furniture display at the Australian Trade Commission show room in

Connaught Centre.

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Mr. Lightbody said that it could be hoped that the high-standard

products on show there would, in the years to come, be found in some of

Hong Kong's public housing estates.

"These developing tastes," he said, "are increasingly well served

by the widening range of attractive home furnishings and fittings now

available in Hong Kong and I am sure that this range of products from

Australia will do much to expand and enrich that range."

Mr. Lightbody pointed out that Housing Authority architects

tried to inject as much variety as possible into the design and appearance

of estates and their facilities.

He said: "I am sure this is no less true in the private housing

sector but I think we would all admit that nowadays so many flats, even

in the private seotor, tend to look very similer to other flats that we

know, and it is only by expressing one's personality or preferences in

the choice of furniture and fittings that one can make one's own home

a distinctive and personalised place.

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