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MONDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1994

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EVEN THE HOUSING

CHANGE

PURPOSE MONTHS

WITH QUESTION:

YOU SAID THAT HONG KONG SHOULD BE A FAIR SOCIETY

QUESTION. INTEGRITY. I FULLY APPRECIATE THAT STATEMENT BUT I HAVE A

SAYS BECAUSE THERE IS THE YEAR GOVERNMENT THE BEGINNING OF INSUFFICIENT LAND SO SOME LAND ORIGINALLY RESERVED FOR SCHOOL BUILDING WOULD BE USED INSTEAD FOR HOUSING. NOW, I AM NOT AGAINST THAT SPIRIT BUT IN SOME COMMUNITIES THERE ARE MORE URGENT MATTERS THAT NEED TO BE RESENTMENT ATTENDED TO BUT THEY ARE NOT ATTENDED TO AND I HAVE STRONG

CONSTITUENCIES ABOUT THAT. IN LAM TIN THERE ARE FIVE DISTRICT BOARD AND IN FOUR OF THEM THERE ARE NO PRIMARY SCHOOLS. AUTHORITY ADMITTED IN DISTRICT BOARD MEETING THAT THEY HAVE TO SOME LAND ORIGINALLY FOR SCHOOL BUILDING INTO HOUSE BUILDING BECAUSE OF INSUFFICIENT LAND SUPPLY BUT WITHIN A PERIOD OF TWO THEY MANAGED TO FIND ANOTHER SUITABLE SITE OUTSIDE THAT AREA SO THEY SEEM TO BE CONTRADICTING THEIR OWN STATEMENTS. IN THAT CASE HOW COULD WE RESOLVE THE PROBLEM OF SERIOUS SHORTAGE OF SCHOOL PLACES AREA? NOW WHEN WE BUY HOUSING UNITS WE LOOK AT THE FLAT AND THE PRICES GIVEN BY THE HOUSING DEPARTMENT, BASED ON THOSE INFORMATION BUT EVEN THOUGH IT IS CONSUMER COUNCIL THE HOUSING AUTHORITY HAS MISLED RESIDENTS HONG PARK COURT, WE WERE DECEIVED TIME AND AGAIN, WE WERE MISLED TIME

WOULD ADDRESS AND AGAIN.

MR GOVERNOR, I HOPE YOU SO PROPERLY AND I HOPE YOU HAVE THE MORAL COURAGE TO GIVE AN TO RECTIFY THE WRONG SO THAT LAND ORIGINALLY SCHOOLS WOULD BE USED EXACTLY FOR THAT PURPOSE.

GOVERNOR: SPECIFIC.

YOU

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IN OUR DESCRIPTIONS

WE MAKE COMPARISON MONITORED BY THE OF THE

THIS ISSUE UNDERTAKING RESERVED FOR PRIMARY

THANK YOU.

THE

PERHAPS I CAN DEAL WITH THE GENERAL AND THEN WITH

WHICH WHAT I CAN'T DO WITH OR WITHOUT THE MORAL COURAGE ΤΟ WHAT I CAN'T DO IS MAGICALLY INCREASE THE SUPPLY OF LAND THAT WE HAVE IN HONG KONG AND WE REGULARLY HAVE TO MAKE DIFFICULT NOT JUST BETWEEN JUDGEMENTS ABOUT PRIORITIES FOR THE USE OF LAND, EDUCATION AND HOUSING BUT BETWEEN HOUSING AND COMMERCIAL OR INDUSTRIAL THAT WILL CONTINUE TO BE A USE WHICH IS ANOTHER PRESSURE POINT.

PRESSURES PROBLEM AND IF I MAY SAY SO WE ARE GOING TO FACED EVEN MORE

SCHOOL PLACES THE EDUCATION FRONT, EVEN MORE DEMANDS FOR PRIMARY BECAUSE THERE ARE A LARGE NUMBER OF CHILDREN WHO WILL HAVE THE

AT LEAST 70,000 WHO HAVE A PARENT TO ENTER HONG KONG AFTER 1997 ·

AND I THINK WE HONG KONG BUT ARE THEMSELVES AT PRESENT IN CHINA GOING TO HAVE TO START ADDRESSING THAT PROBLEM AS WE HAVE BEEN

WE ARE AT 1997 SO THAT IT'S NOT TOO DIFFICULT AFTER 1997. BUILDING PARTLY TO ACCOMMODATE THOSE CHILDREN WHO ARE COMING ARE BUILDING A PRIMARY CLASS EVERY THREE DAYS AND THAT'S SOON GOING TO THE BE NOT NEARLY ENOUGH WHEN WE ARE GOING TO HAVE TO BUILD MORE SO

ARE LIKELY ΤΟ ON THE EDUCATION FRONT PRESSURES YOU'VE IDENTIFIED

AS YOU INCREASE RATHER THAN DIMINISH. THERE ARE GENERAL GUIDELINES

SORT OF KNOW ABOUT THE CATCHMENT AREAS FOR PRIMARY SCHOOLS AND THE POPULATION WHICH REQUIRES A PRIMARY SCHOOL AND WE TRY TO SATISFY THOSE WHEREVER POSSIBLE.

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