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sites were cleared in Shamshuipo, Hunghom and Shaukiwan for private enterprise housing and co-operative housing schemes.

46. The next big group of clearances was for schools. In addition to those for the two schools in the Li Cheng Uk area which have already been mentioned there were several others. In April came the Church Missionary Society's new St. Timothy's School at Gillies Avenue, Hunghom. In May four sites on the ridge to the east of the Tai Hang Tung Estate were cleared for a Government school, a Lutheran school and for a Y.W.C.A. hostel and a Children's Centre. In December a site was cleared in Hunghom for the Pooi Ai primary school and in January 1957 another site in Cheungshawan for a large Government primary school at the junction of Fuk Wing Street and Camp Street. Other school clearances were in connexion with the Maryknoll Mission's large new school north of the Tai Hang Tung Estate and for a school to be built by the International Council for Christian Leadership at the junction of Wing Hong Street and Shun Ning Road.

47. Several sites were also cleared for new factories, three of these being at Tsuen Wan in the New Territories, two in Kowloon and one at Kun Tong,

48. No less important were the clearances made for Public Works Department's schemes for the extension and improve- ment of the Colony's roads, drains and water supply systems in order to provide adequate services not only for the new sites being developed in many parts of the Colony but for the in- creasing demand in areas already developed where large numbers of buildings are being demolished to be replaced by new buildings two or three times the height of the old.

49. Of the 61 land clearances during the year, seventeen included the clearance of cultivation, mostly illegal. Although resettlement can now be offered to shops and workshops and will soon be available for small factories the shortage of land in the Colony is unfortunately so acute that no alternative land can be offered to persons involved in cultivation clearances. If such land is privately owned it has first to be resumed under the Crown Lands Resumption Ordinance and the former owner is legally entitled to the full market value of the land as assessed by a Compensation Board, one member of which

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