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FRIDAY, JULY JO, 1987

VILLAGE BUILDINGS, STRUCTURES DECLARED DANGEROUS

THE BUILDING AUTHORITY TODAY (FRIDAY) DECLARED 17 AND STRUCTURES IN A WONG TAI SIN VILLAGE TO RE IN A CONDITION OR LIABLE TO BECOME DANGEROUS,

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THOSE IN DANGEROUS CONDITION ARE NOS. 1 37, 48. 53. 62, 63, 64, 73 AND 73A, CHUK YUEN UNITED VILLAGE, WHILE THOSE LIABLE TO BECOME DANGEROUS ARE 8, 9, 49, 52,

BUILDINGS DANGEROUS

54, 61,

THE NOS. OF 540. 55 AND 1078.

THE PRINCIPAL GOVERNMENT BUILDING SURVEYOR SAID SOME OF THE BUILDINGS WERE ONE OR TWO-STORFY VILLAGR-TYPE BUILDINGS AND SOME WERE TEMPORARY STRUCTURES ERECTED WITH SHORT-LIFE MATERIALS AND OF FLIMSY CONSTRUCTION.

"THE BUILDINGS ARE GENERALLY IN DILAPIDATION AND DETERIORATION, HE SAID.

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ADVANCED

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APART FROM THE TEMPOR VIRY STRUCTURES, THERE WERE NUMEROUS CRACKS ON THE WALLS, SOME OF WHICH WERE CONSTRUCTED OF STONE RUBBLE, BRICKS AND BLOCKS OP PARTE, WITH A NUMBER OR OPPN JOINTS OR WHOLLY PLAIN MUD WITH AREAS OF KROSION.

WHERE THE BUILDINGS WERE PARTIALLY CONSTRUCTED OF REINFORCED CONCRETE, EXTENSIVE AREAS OF SPALLED CONCRETE WERE FOUND TO THE CEILINGS AND THE UNDERSIDE OF BALCONIES, AND ALSO TO BEAMS AND LINTELS.

WHERE THE FLOORS AND ROOFS WERE CONSTRUCTED OP OF TIMBER DECAY AND TERMITE ATTACK WERE COMMON.

TIMBER, SIGNS

SOME OF THE BUILDINGS HAD (MADEQUATE FERE ESCAPES.

HE SAID A PORTION OF THE ROOF AT THE REAR OF NO. SOME TIME AGO AND A PARTIAL COLLAPSE OF A SIDE WALL OF RENDERED NO. 55 LIABLE TO PECOME DANGEROUS.

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NO. 56 HAD

ALL THESE BUILDINGS ARE CONSIDERED TO HAVE REACHED THE END OF THEIR USEFUL LIFE AND ARE REYOND REASONABLE REPAIR," HE SAID,

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AND 73A,

NOTICES OF INTENTION TO APPLY FOR CLOSURE ORDERS IN HIONG KONG DISTRICT COURT IN AUGUST ON ALL BUILDINGS KXCEPT NOS.

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*8, 54 WHICH ARE OF GOVERIMENT LAND, WERE POSTED THIS MORNING.

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IN THESE OTHER CASES CROWN LAND NOTICES WILL BE GIVEN.

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