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HONG KONG URBAN COUNCIL

HONG KONG URBAN COUNCIL

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Markets

35. To push ahead with the markets building/reconstruction programme.

36. To maintain close contact with local public opinion in pursuit of Aim 35 above.

37. To improve conditions generally in retail markets with special attention to food hygiene and cleanliness.

38. To give further study to the problem of reprovisioning the fruit, poultry and pond-fish wholesalers at Cheung Sha Wan.

Abattoirs

39. To complete all arrangements affecting the operation of the new abattoirs so that they may start functioning in 1967/68 as soon as the buildings are finished and the equipment installed.

Cemeteries and Crematoria

40. To further publicize and to make more widely known the modern facilities for cremation that exist at Cape Collinson and to improve the facilities in cemeteries and crematoria generally.

Traffic

41. To seek to increase and to improve the Council's representa- tion in traffic matters.

General

City Hall

42. (a) To continue to encourage the full usage of the City Hall

facilities by the public;

Library

(b) To continue to improve the existing facilities so far as it

is possible to do so;

(c) To continue to present public concerts of Western and Chinese music by local performers at low admission fees.

43. To promote the provision of an adequate Public Libraries Service throughout the Urban area within the scope of the Libraries Ordinance 1965 in the following possible ways which are not placed in order of priority but are all to be considered of prime importance : -

(a) To press for the early realization of a permanent Kowloon

Public Library in Hung Hom.

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(b) Planning for the establishment of public libraries in Wa Fu

estate, Sham Shui Po and Shau Kei Wan.

(c) Consideration of the taking over of responsibility of the

Social Welfare Department libraries.

(d) Systematic build-up of bookstocks in both the Kowloon

and City Hall Libraries.

(e) Development of library service in resettlement areas at suitable literacy levels in co-operation with the Housing Division.

Museum and Art Gallery

44. (a) With the completion of the Select Committee's report on Museum and Art Gallery Services and the recommenda- tions for their development in Hong Kong the aim will be to press Government for the early implementation of the report.

(b) With some additional space becoming available within the City Hall the aim will be to develop as a first priority the section devoted to local archaeology, history and ethno- graphy.

Resettlement

45. To resettle persons as rapidly as possible and, in the manage- ment and administration of estates and cottage areas, to press forward with measures designed to improve the integration of the residents into the general community.

46. To keep under review the policy and priorities laid down in White Paper entitled "Review of Policies for Squatter Control, Resettle- ment and Government Low Cost Housing, 1964" and to suggest amend- ments from time to time.

47. To urge Government to implement the policy, which has been adopted in principle, of counting children of 6 or over as adults for the propose of room allocation on admission to Resettlement Estates, while retaining the policy of counting children of 10 or over as adults for the purpose of relieving over-crowding.

48. To endeavour to contain hawkers within specified areas in Resettlement Estates, and to ensure that hawking is conducted within the spaces allocated, and in the right manner.'

General Policy

49. To press more vigorously for the enlargement of the Council's scope and its representation on various other public bodies.

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