XN000022-1988-03-25 — Page 3

FRIDAY, MARCH 25, 1988

AND SPORTS AMENITIES

TO RELIEVE THE SHORTAGE OF RECREATIONAL

KOK TOWN, IN SHA TAU

A SIZABLE RECREATIONAL SEVEN-A-SIDE SOCCER PITCH, TWO BASKETBALL. COURTS, AREA AND A JOGGING TRAIL IS NEARING COMPLETION.

A GROUND PROVIDING

A CHILDREN'S PLAY

A SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT WILL BE IN OPERATION IN WITH THE REDEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME.

THE OF

FISHING

IN JUNE ፐር TIE

FOR THE BENEFIT

FLEET IN SHA TAU KOK, A PERMANENT SHELTERED ANCHORAGE WILL ALSO BE PROVIDED.

TOWN

THE BILLION

OF FANLING/SHEUNG SHUI NEW TURNING TO THE DEVELOPMENT WHICH CURRENTLY ACCOMMODATED 110,000 PEOPLE, MR CHEUNG NOTED THAT

ANOTHER AND GOVERNMENT HAD SPENT OVER $3 BILLION SO FAR, WOULD BE INVESTED IN THE NEXT FEW YEARS,

OF THE HE SAID ON FULL DEVELOPMENT BY THE TURN

WITCH AT PRESENT STOOD POPULATION OF NORTH DISTRICT, WOULD RISE TO A STAGGERING 320,000.

TRANSPORT ON

$3

CENTURY THE AT 150,000,

+

3.

FACILITIES, ME CHEUNG SAID THE NEW TOWN'S METROPOLITAN AREA HAD BREN GREATLY IMPROVED

9 KILOMETRE

BYPASS FANLING

MID-1985

IN

ACCESSIBILITY TO THE

THE UPON COMPLETION OF AT A COST OF $180 MILLION.

FROM

ANOTHER SECTION OF THE NEW TERRITORIES CIRCULAR ROAD

WAS COMPLETED UF ΤΟ KAM IN SHEUNG SHUI TO AU TAU IN YUEN LONG TSIN AND KWU TUNG IN SHEUNG SHUT IN APRIL LAST YEAR, HE ADDED.

UP WITH THE THIS WILL EVENTUALLY LINK FUTURE NEW BORDER CROSSING POINT AT LOK MA CHAU.

FAN

KAM

ACCESS ROAD

TO THE

MAN KAM

ROAD TO IN ADDITION, WIDENING OF

INTO A STANDARD

ONE THREE-LANE CARRIAGEWAY WITH TWO LANES FOR CHINA-ROUND TRAFFIC AND LANE FOR HONG KONG-BOUND TRAFFIC WILL BE COMPLETED BY MAY.

WORK WILL START EARLY NEXT YEAR TO UPGRADE SHA TAU KOK ROAD A STANDARD DUAL CARRIAGEWAY.

TO

PER MR CHEUNG SAID NEARLY 60

CENT OF WITH REGARD TO HOUSING,

WERE BEING ACCOMMODATED THE FANLING-SHEUNG SHUT NEW TOWN POPULATION IN THE PUBLIC HOUSING SECTOR.

TWO PUBLIC HOUSING ESTATES ARE NOW UNDER CONSTRUCTION AND ON ANOTHER ONE WILL BEGIN EARLY NEXT YEAR.

WORK

IN THE

TO KEEP ABREAST WITH THE NEEDS OF A GROWING POPULATION

FACILITIES INCLUDING A NEW TOWN, HE SAID, A FULL RANGE OF COMMUNITY

$100 MILLION 1,200-BED DISTRICT HOSPITAL NEAR CHOT YUEN ESTATE AND A MAJOR SPORTS COMPLEX NEAR SHEK WU DU IN SUFUNG SHUT WOULD BE BUILT.

WILL THERE

ALSO DE

A 13-HECTARE TOWN

AND ORIENTAL-STYLE ARTIFICIAL LAKE, SPORTS GROUND STRADDLING SHEK WU HUL AND QUEN WO HUT IN FANLING.

AN PARK WITH SITTING-OUT AREAS

/HE ADDED