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HONG KONG HOUSING AUTHORITY #BAZAÝ

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Friday, February 11, 1977

GOVERNOR GETS TOP-LEVEL BRIEFING ON PUBLIC HOUSING

Hong Kong's top housing officials today gave a detailed briefing

on public housing to the Governor, Sir Murray MacLehose, at the Housing

Authority Headquarters.

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Sir Murray, who has always shown great interest in public housing,

was brought up to date on the current building programme, and other aspects

of public housing.

The Chairman of the Housing Authority, Mr I. M. Lightbody, who is

also the Secretary for Housing and the Director of Housing, Mr Donald Liao, greeted the Governor on arrival and escorted him to the Authority's conference

room for the briefing.

Points covered included the impressive growth-rate of public

housing, rising expenditure on the huge public housing programme,

the large

number of estates under construction and contracts to be let in the coming

financial year, mechanised building methods being used to speed up the housing

programme, and the highly favourable level of rents charged for public housing

compared with much higher rents for similar accommodation in the private

sector.

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