TNAG-0943-FCO40-1162-Future-of-Hong-Kong-1980 — Page 145

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FM HONG KONG 090347Z JUN 80

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TELEGRAM NUMBEP 741 OF 9 JUNE

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RECEIVED IN REGISTRY NO. 51 09 JUN 1980

YOUR TELEGRAMS 444, 453 AND 454 OF 5TH AND 6TH JUNESK OFFICER

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QUESTION I: TOTAL COMPLETION FIGURES FOR PRIVATE AND PUBLIC HOUSING UNITS ARE 1975/76-31,290, 1976/77

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35,724, 1978/79-43,720, 1979/80 - 59,998. THE FOLLOWING ESTIMATED TOTAL COMPLETIONS ARE ANTICIPATED: 1980/81 68,420, 1981/82 - 70,944, 1982/83 - 64,092, 1983/84 62,656, 1984/85 56,280.

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THE PUBLIC SECTOR PROVIDED THE FOLLOWING NUMBER OF FLATS OUT OF THE TOTALS SHOWN IN THE FIVE YEARS QUOTED ABOVE: 17,890, 10,106, 13,524, 16,720, 32,998, THE ESTIMATES FOR THE NEXT FIVE YEARS IN THE PUBLIC SECTOR ARE: 37,420, 38,944, 35,092, 37,656, 36,280. THE WAITING LIST FOR PUBLIC HOUSING COMPRISES 150,000 FAMILIES AND THE AVERAGE WAITING TIME ON THE LIST IS ABOUT 7 YEARS.

QUESTION 1: NO COMMENTS. PLEASE SEE OUR TELEGRAM 739 OF 7TH

JUNE AS REGARDS A MINOR AMENDMENT TO THE DRAFT NOTES FOR SUPPLEMENTARIES SET OUT IN YOUR TELEGRAM 454.

QUESTION III: WE SUGGEST THE FOLLOWING VARIATION ON THE DRAFT REPLY IN YOUR TELEGRAM 453. QUOTE THE ATTORNEY GENERAL, HONG KONG, HAS NOW STUDIED THE CORONER'S DEPOSITIONS AND CONCLUDED THAT THERE WAS OVERWHELMING EVIDENCE AT THE INQUEST INTO THE DEATH

OF INSPECTOR MACLENNAN WHICH SHOWED THAT HE COMMITTED SUICIDE. ACCORDINGLY HE HAS DECIDED THAT HE HAS NO LEGAL POWER UNDER THE CORONER'S ORDINANCE TO REOPEN THE INQUEST UNQUOTE.

QUESTION IV: 177,500 PERSONS WERE ACCOMMODATED IN THE 32,998 NEW FLATS COMPLETED IN THE PUBLIC SECTOR IN 1979/80. USING AN AVERAGE OCCUPANCY RATION OF 5:2 PERSONS PER FLAT IT IS ESTIMATED

THAT 140,400 WERE ACCOMMODATED IN THE 27,000 NEW FLATS COMPLETED IN THE PRIVATE SECTOR IN 1979/80. THE TOTAL ACCOMMODATED WAS THUS APPROXIMATELY 317,900.

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