people of the United States of America to Hong Kong as part of their contribution towards the World Refugee Year was fully used during the year and it is hoped to build similar community centres near some of the large estates in the future.
73. Large recreation spaces are provided within the boundaries of each estate, similar in design to playgrounds and recreation spaces in other parts of the urban areas. They include small fenced playgrounds for young children, enclosed areas with lawns and benches for the more elderly, volley-ball and basketball courts and miniature football grounds.
CHAPTER VII
RESETTLEMENT FACTORIES
74. Most squatter areas in the Colony include a number of work- shops and small factories. Some of these workshops can be resettled in the ground floor rooms of resettlement estates, but others are un- suitable for this type of accommodation because they use power-driven machinery or other processes likely to disturb the residents in the block. It is to provide for these concerns that resettlement factories have been built.
75. The appearance of these factory buildings is similar to a domestic 'H' block, but there are important structural differences. The weight is borne on columns spaced at twelve feet intervals. Each floor of each wing in the older factories consists of 9,000 square feet of open space divided by a staircase and a ramp in the centre, and with addi- tional staircase access at each end of the wings. Each floor is divisible into units of 198 or 256 square feet the clear space between each of the bearing columns-and one of these units is the minimum area which can be allocated to any one concern. A verandah running round the building provides access to all units. The connecting link between the wings houses the communal latrines and wash rooms. The roof of each wing is used for drying space, part of which is covered over. The new factory buildings at San Po Kong are somewhat different in design. They are of an 'I' shape and the weight is borne on columns and walls spaced at sixteen feet intervals. Each floor is therefore divisible into larger units of 256 square feet, and communal latrines and wash rooms are situated at each end of the buildings.
76. Rents vary from floor to floor, ranging, in the older factories, from $75 a month for a ground floor unit of 198 square feet to $45 a
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