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HONG KONG HOUSING AUTHORITY &##DZĒT

PRESS RELEASE

新聞稿

Monday, October 20, 1975

SECRETARY FOR HOUSING INSPECTS NEW ESTATE SITES

The Secretary for Housing, Mr. Ian Lightbody, spent this

(Londay) morning visiting a number of new Housing Authority estate sites

in the New Territories where construction work is proceeding.

Mr. Lightbody called first at Kwai Shing and then Lei luk Shue

and ended his morning tour at Tuen Mun. All these estates are designed

and built by the Architectural Office of the Public Works Department.

Accompanying Mr. Lightbody on his visit was lir. Thomas Ku

of the Architectural Office, PWD.

at Lei luk Shue, Mr. Lightbody inspected one of the six

recently completed blocks where tenants have already begun moving in,

The estate is designed for up to 38,000 people.

Work on two sites at Kwai Shing is being pushed ahead and the

estate will be completed between harch and August next year. The

estate occupies a most attractive hill site overlooking Tsuen Wan and

Tsing Yi. The scheme includes three primary schools.

Finally ir. Lightbody visited the site of the new Tai Hing

housing

estate at Tuen Mun where 30-storey cruciform blocks, each

about 8,000 people, are building modern mechanical methods, using towering

cranes to lift prefabricated wall and floor couponments into place.

The contractors have built an elaborated precasting yard on site

where these components are poured in moulds and dried, These cruciform

blocks will be wide at the ground level and narrow at the upper floors 60

producing a variety of flat sizes. Each flat will have its own toilet

and kitchen.