Department is $464,582.00. The stormwater drainage works, to preserve site formation, were completed by Messrs. Waking Builder (also as a separate P.W.D. contract) at a cost of $348,866.87.
75. In August 1958 the Resettlement Department cleared 86 squatter huts (housing about 1,100 people) outside the North-west and North- east boundaries of the site, to provide a safety zone for blasting and excavations.
76. The roads lay-out was agreed with the Public Works Depart- ment, and authority given to them to proceed with installation of the street lighting system within the estate. The China Light & Power Co. agreed to design and construct at its own expense a sub-station in front of Block H to supply the estate. One power point will be installed in each flat on the estate.
✓77. The Hong Kong Telephone Co. was asked to arrange for tele- phones in the estate office, community centre, schools, and shops, and to have stand-by capacity available for the flats. Although no telephone service can be provided until after the opening of the new Mong Kok exchange, in 1960, it should then be possible to fulfil all applications. Messrs. Rediffusion (Hong Kong) Ltd. have laid main conduits and cables for their service, together with risers and horizontals, leaving connexions to individual flats to be wired when tenants ask for service, as has been done on other estates. The Company will pay all expenses. ✓ 78. Roof storage tanks for mains water are not needed as sufficient pressure to give an adequate supply without pumping should be avail- able. Roof storage tanks will be needed, however, for the salt-water flushing supply. There will be a mains supply on each floor of all blocks for cleaning purposes, with safe-guards to conserve consumption. This concession is valuable, as the salt-water supply will be too heavily polluted for cleaning.
79. Two high-level service reservoirs are to be built by the Public Works Department at Piper's Hill, above the Tai Po Road: one will hold 3,000,000 gallons of frest water, drawn from the Tai Lam Chung distributional system, while the other, of 2,000,000 gallons capacity, will store sea water for flushing. The reservoirs, 400 ft. above sea level, will serve the estate, as well as adjacent resettlement areas, and are expected to be ready for use in 1960.
80. The architects have been instructed to stagger lift openings in the longer blocks, wherever practicable, in order to ensure maximum coverage. The 'skip floor' system (stopping at every third floor) will
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