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WATERFALL BAY PARK

Sunday, August 17, 1975

Waterfall Bay Park will be a popular attraction when it opens to the general public at the end of the year.

The park, now under construction on the slope of the headland on which Wah Fu Estate stands, has an area of about seven acres.

It is designed and built by the Housing Department on behalf of the Urban Council.

A special feature of the park is its mile-long walkway, inter- spersed with children playgrounds, sitting-out areas, picnic spots and barbeque pits.

A pavilion, which is now near completion, is located on a site overlooking a 100-foot waterfall from which the park derives its name. Shortly to go up adjacent to the pavilion will be a plaque on which the history of the waterfall will be inscribed.

The project architect has also given much thought to land- scaping and the entire park will be planted with trees, shrubs and flowers beautifully laid out.

As the park stretches from Waterfall Bay to Kellet Bay, there will be a number of places from which the public can enter or leave.

The progress of work was slightly held up earlier this year pending the resiting of a group of hawkers who had to ply their trade elsewhere to make way for the development of the public park.

The problem was speedily resolved by the Housing Department

and the Urban Services Department.

"In view of the need to provide more marketing facilities for tenants of Wah Fu Estate, additional market stalls were built at the Town Centre and these were let recently by instant tender from these hawkers,

"Those who were successful have already moved in and are doing good business," a Housing Department spokesman said.

The remainder, he added, have been resited to an open-air car park within the Waterfall Bay Park where they are allowed to ply their trade between 8 a.. daily.

These arrangements have worked out satisfactorily.

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