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Friday, December 7, 1973

BETTER LIGHTING FOR OLD ESTATES

Lighting in the central-corridor type public housing estates is

to get better. Six blocks in Taz Wan Shan Estate have just been rewired and

ceiling lights have been installed in every corridor bay and on every

staircase and entrance hall.

Hr. Ralph Husband, Assistant Director of Housing, said the improve-

ments were an integral part of a multi-million dollar project to create a

better environment for tenants.

This is just a start," he said. "In the next two or three years,

we will carry out improvements, including lighting improvements to all

276 blocks of the Mark III and onward central corridor type at a cost of

more than 3.5 million dollars."

Mr. Husband pointed out that the improvements did not run counter

to the energy conservation moves being urged by government.

"Public areas in this type of block have long been in need of better

lighting," he said. "The latest addition will merely bring them up to an

acceptably normal standard."

The earliest estate blocks have outside balcony access and the

need for imroved lighting is not so great. But in later blocks, access

to households is by a long internal corridor. The old standard of a ceiling

light in every third bay is not considered adequate.

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