month's special survey on the present manpower situa- tion and future needs of the building and civil en- gineering industries in Hong Kong.
Explanatory letters in English and Chinese, toge- ther with three copies of a questionnaire and other information were sent to 48 building and civil engineer- ing contractors and construction sites selected by a stratified random sampling method.
The pilot survey will provide information and valuable experience, with the help of which the Building Trade Industrial Committee can lay definite plans for the forthcoming manpower survey.
The three-day manpower survey, from August 12 to 14, is to be conducted by the Labour Department with the assistance of the Hong Kong Technical College. It is designed to obtain information — in- cluding the number of workers at present employed; the number of apprentices at present under training; and the normal weekly working hours on each of the 29 principal jobs in these industries.
The survey has been requested by the Building Trades Industrial Committee of the Industrial Training Advisory Committee whose terms of reference include, among other matters, classifying the principal occupa- tions, writing descriptions of these occupations and studying the manpower needs of the building and civil engineering industries.
New housing estate for 18,000 people
PLANS for the 13th low-cost housing estate to be built by Hong Kong Government were announced last month. It will be built at Kwai Hing, near Tsuen Wan in the New Territories.
Work starts this month on the 11th low-cost Two estate, the Lei Muk Shue estate at Tsuen Wan. buildings, each 20 storeys high, will provide homes for 8,500 people. A six-storey primary school with 24 classrooms will also be built.
Hong Kong's resettlement programme
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A COLOUR pamphlet entitled "Homes for a mil- published last month by the Government Information Services tells the story of Hong Kong's dramatic resettle- ment programme, which has housed more than 26 per cent of the Colony's population in the past 14 years.
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The pamphlet traces the origins of this mas- sive achievement to the tragic Shek Kip Mei fire of Christmas Day 1953, which left 50,000 homeless. It recalls the early cottage areas, the first multi-storey 'H' blocks and the continu-
ing efforts by Public Works Department architects to improve on these prototypes and provide more ameni- ties with each successive design.
Nothing quite like Hong Kong's ambitious reset- tlement undertaking has been tackled anywhere else in the world. But the pamphlet points out that in spite of the high rate of building no one can yet say how soon it will be possible to provide new homes for all those persons who are now inadequately housed, including the remaining squatter population which is still esti- mated to be about 440,000. involving the
The estate will comprise three 20-storey and two seven-storey blocks as well as two schools with a total of 48 classrooms. On completion, it will provide housing for about 18,000 people.
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The first phase of the project construction of one 20-storey block and one 24- classroom school — is estimated to cost about HK$3.3 million. It is expected to be completed in mid-1970 while the whole estate is scheduled to be finished by 1971. Work will start in October.
The rooms in this estate are to be built to ac- commodate families of five, seven and nine people with a minimum of 35 sq. ft. per person. Each room will also have its own toilet and kitchen as well as a small balcony.
University Hospital opening this month
THE University Hospital, which forms part of the M$70 million Medical Centre of the University of Malaya (Far East Builder, June 1966) will be officially opened on August 5.
The centre, which has taken 31⁄2 years to con- struct, is now complete and comprises a Faculty of
Model of the 18,000-person Kwai Hing estate to be built near Tsuen Wan
Far East BUILDER, August 1968.
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