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Street, Tai Kok Tsui, sites were cleared for local officers' housing schemes, while in Kwun Tong a further area was cleared for industrial housing.

44. The next big group of clearances was for schools. In Hong Kong, a further part of the site for the Shau Kei Wan Government Primary School was cleared as well as a site required to provide access to Caine Road Government Primary School. In April, a site was cleared at Bridges Street for the King's College Old Boys' Association's new primary school, and in November, a site off King's Road, near Fortress Hill Road, was cleared for Government's new Clementi Middle School. In Kowloon, two sites at Wylie Road, King's Park, were cleared for the Tung Wah Hospital's Kwan Kai Ming Primary School and the Kowloon Women's Welfare Club's new primary school. Five sites in Kowloon were cleared for new Government Primary Schools at Canton Road, Willow Street, Wong Tai Sin Estate, Shek Kip Mei Estate and at Kwun Tong. In Tai Kok Tsui, the sites for three new schools were cleared, the first for the Semple Memorial Primary School at Willow Street, the second for the Fish Merchants' Association School at Sycamore Street, and the third for the Chau Clansmen Association School also at Sycamore Street. In Lancashire Road an area reserved for new schools and playgrounds was also cleared.

45. Other operations in Kowloon included the clearance of the site for the Hong Kong and China Gas Company's new plant at the junction of To Kwa Wan Road and Ma Tau Kok Road, for a Government clinic at Wong Tai Sin Estate, and for a public park and playground between the Housing Authority's site at So Uk and Li Cheng Uk Estate, while a few squatter huts were removed from the site of the new Kowloon Hospital in King's Park. A rather unusual operation was the resettlement of families living in penthouses at Prince Edward Road which had to be removed to reduce building heights in the vicinity of the new Kai Tak Runway.

46. Other important clearances were made for Public Works Depart- ment's schemes for the extension and improvement of the Colony's roads, drains, portworks and water supply systems. From March to June 1958, five large scale operations were undertaken to remove a total of 636 structures containing 8,729 persons (1,674 families) to permit the construction of the road to link Shek Kip Mei and Tai Hang Tung and to improve drainage along Nan Chang Street. A considerable number of the structures were of stone, two and three storeys high. There were 163 shops and workshops and thirteen small factories within the clearance

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