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clearances and for sites for schools and welfare centres to be allocated to voluntary agencies. It also checks and passes plans and calculations for buildings for factories, or for schools, clinics, etc. sponsored by welfare organizations, and carries out inspections of the completed structures.

95. Contracts let to private contractors during the year included the re-building of fifteen shops at Tai Wo Hau, offices and sub-stores at Tai Wo Hau and Tai Wo Ping, twenty aqua-privy blocks, nine refuse incinerators, fencing and general maintenance work throughout the cottage areas.

96. The most important item of development work carried out by departmental labour was the formation of 644 new cottage sites together with their ancillary paths, steps and drainage channels.

APPENDIX TO CHAPTER VI

BUILDINGS IN COTTAGE AREAS

A. Stone or Brick Cottages

Owned by Permittee

Hire Purchase agreements

Rental agreements

Totals

1. Built by Permittee (or his private contractor)

1,762

1,762

2. Built by contractors be- tween 1951 and 1954 for sale to eligible persons

3. Built by non-profit making and welfare organizations

4. Built or purchased by the Government

2.095

153

9*

2,257

920

1,697

1,389+

4,006

437

437

Totals ...

4,777

1.850

1.835

8,462

B. Wooden Huts

Built by Permittee ...

5,902

5,902

C. Shops

Built by Permittee (or his

private contractor)

395

395

D. Workshops & Factories

Built by permittee (or his

private contractor)

Grand Totals

* Requisitioned by Government.

78

78

11,152

1,850

1,835

14.837

† 1,212 of these cottages have been handed over to the Government which, therefore,

now owns 1,658 cottages.

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