XN000022-1978-07-22 — Page 3

SATURDAY, JULY 22, 1978

HE POINTED OUT THAT AT PRESENT ABOUT 10 PEOPLE, MAINLY TRES:SSERS, ARE KILLED ON THE RAILWAY EACH YEAR AND THIS WILL ING. LASE UNLESS PEOPLE TAKE CARE.

+FOR THE SAKE OF SAFETY IT IS PROPOSED TO FENCE OFF THE ENTIRE RAILWAY LINE EVENTUALLY AND PROVIDE SUBWAYS OR FOOTBRIDGES BUT IN THE MEANTIME, NEW WARNING SIGNS ARE TO EE SET UP AT POINTS ALONG THE RAILWAY WHERE PEOPLE CROSS, + MR. ELVY SAID.

NEW INDUSTRIAL LAND TO PROVIDE JOBS FOR 30,000 PEOPLE IN TUEN MUN ****

THE GOVERNMENT IS ABOUT TO DEVELOP ANOTHER LARGE INDUSTRIAL AREA IN TUEN MUN NEW TOWN WHICH WILL EVENTUALLY PROVIDE WORK FOR ABOUT 30,000 PEOPLE.

THE PROJECT WILL COMPLETE THE FORMATION OF NEARLY 20 HECTARES OF INDUSTRIAL LAND OPPOSITE TUEN MUN SAN HUI.

A MAJOR PART OF THE AREA HAS ALREADY BEEN SOLD TO INDUSTRIALISTS WHO ARE ALREADY OPERATING FIVE FACTORIES, WHILE ANOTHER 12 INDUSTRIAL PLANTS ARE UNDER CONSTRUCTION.

THE ACTING TUEN MUN DISTRICT OFFICER, MR. GEOFFREY ORR, SAID TODAY THE LATEST PROJECT WOULD ENABLE THE GOVERNMENT TO KEEP PACE WITH THE KEEN INTEREST SHOWN BY INDUSTRIALISTS IN THE NEW TOWN.

HE POINTED OUT THAT AN INDUSTRIAL SITE IN THE SAME AREA LAST TUESDAY (JULY 18) WAS SOLD FOR A RECORD PRICE OF $15.2 MILLION THE EQUIVALENT OF $522 PER SQUARE FOOT -- AND MORE THAN TWICE THE OPENING BID OF $7 MILLION.

WORK ON SITE FORMATION FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE AREA IS SCHEDULED TO START IN DECEMBER THIS YEAR AND WILL TAKE TWO YEARS TO COMPLETE.

TO FACILITATE THE WORK, MR. GEOFFREY ORR SAID, THE GOVERNMENT WILL HAVE TO RESUME 2,036 SQUARE METRES OF PRIVATE AGRICULTURAL LAND, 976 SQUARE METRES OF BUILDING LAND, 162 SQUARE METRES OF KILN LAND AND 89 SQUARE METRES OF LIME KILN LAND.

THREE MONTHS' NOTICE OF THE LAND RESUMPTION WAS PUBLISHED

IN YESTERDAY'S GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.

THE RESUMPTION WILL INVOLVE THE CLEARANCE OF 158 TEMPORARY DOMESTIC STRUCTURES OCCUPIED BY 150 FAMILIES OF ABOUT 680 PERSONS. OF THESE STRUCTURES, TWO ARE ON PRIVATE LAND AND 156 ON CROWN LAND.

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