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HONG KONG HOUSING AUTHORITY DESA⭑

PRESS RELEASE

新聞稿

Sunday, August 31, 1975

HOUSING AUTHORITY SPENDS $350,000 ON NEW GARDEN

The Housing Authority has spent $350,000 to improve the living

environment at one of its older estates, Wang Tau Hom,

Under the improvement project an open area in the estate previously

occupied by more than 280 hawkers and illegal structures is developed into

a garden.

The area measuring about 33,600 sq. ft, eonsists of two basketball

courts, two children's playgrounds and a large sitting-out area planted with

a mixture of evergreen and deciduous trees, shrubs and flowers.

The estate, constructed more than 10 years ago, houses 66,000 people

in 26 blocks. The new facility was designed and built, and will be maintained

and controlled, by the Housing Authority.

The children's playgrounds have been equipped with swings, slides and

a merry-go-round, all provided and installed by officers and men of the

Composit Ordinance Depot of the British Army.

All genuine hawkers of long standing affected by the redevelopment

have been resited elsewhere in the estate.

The garden, Wan Chui Yuen (Evergreen Garden), will be officially

opened at 3 p.m. on Wednesday (September 3) by the Chairman of the Housing

Authority Management Committee, Mr. R.H. Lobo.

Note to Editors:

You are invited to send a photographer and/or reporter

to cover this event.