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area; the owners of shops were offered new shop sites at Shek Kip Mei Estate and the factories were resettled at the Cheung Sha Wan Resettle- ment Factory. The purely domestic families in the area, that is 7,974 persons, were resettled at Wong Tai Sin Estate, which was the only cstate that could provide accommodation for such a large number of people. Other clearances for road schemes were for widening Fortress Hill Road to connect the new extension of Tin Hau Temple Road with King's Road, for widening Castle Peak Road at Milestone 5, and for widening Boundary Street, Kwun Tong Road and Texaco Road, Tsuen Wan. Small clearances were undertaken in Wu Hu Street, Hung Hom, for a new side street, and at Tai Wo Hau, Tsuen Wan, for an access road and bridge. Clearances for drainage schemes included the removal of squatter huts at Nan Chang Street to enable the nullah to be decked, and for a storm water drain at Chai Wan. A clearance was carried out at the north-east end of the Yau Ma Tei Typhoon Shelter for the construction of a new seawall, Seven operations were carried out for waterworks projects, which included sites for service reservoirs at King's Park and Tin Hau Temple Road and for five salt water service reservoirs at Tai Wo Ping, Lo Fu Ngam, Jordan Valley, Ngau Tau Kok and Kwun Tong. Part of the site at King's Park was within the King's Park Resettlement Area; ninety seven wooden huts owned by settlers in the area had to be cleared, their occupants being resettled at Hung Hom Estate.

47. Of the sixty four land clearances during the year, forty included land under cultivation. Of these, seventeen did not involve the resettle- ment of any persons; these included the sites for the first three blocks of Chai Wan Resettlement Estate, the Hong Kong Baptist Hospital at Cornwall Street, Kowloon Tong, local officers' housing schemes near Pok Fu Lam Road and at Ede Road, Kowloon Tong, and for housing development at Fung Wong Village, Wong Tai Sin. Small clearances were made for an extension to the Resettlement Administration Office, Ho Man Tin, for a public dump at Pok Fu Lam Road, for the Hong Kong Electric Company's Sports Ground at Jardine's Lookout, for two construction companies' sites at Ngau Tau Kok and Cha Kwo Ling, and for dangerous goods godowns at Kai Lung Wan, Pok Fu Lam. 48. The total area of cultivated land cleared during 1958/59 was 37.76 acres, for which ex-gratia compensation amounting to $1,037,264.39 was paid.

49. A summary of the clearance and resettlement operations during the year is attached as an appendix to this chapter. Of the total of 37,001

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