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Tau Kok, are either nearing the construction stage or actually under construction. Sites have been reserved for a number of other markets which have not yet reached the planning stage. Of the markets planned, seven incorporate hawker bazaars, and three other separate hawker bazaars are also in the planning programme. These are:
Markets Incorporating Hawker Bazaars
New Aberdeen Market
New Ngau Tau Kok Market
New Hung Hom Market
Waterloo Road Market
New Kowloon City Market
Market at junction of Wan Chai Road and Bowrington Road
New Quarry Bay Market
Hawker Bazaars
Aberdeen Reservoir Road
Po On Street
Soy Street near Sai Yee Street
As for Shau Kei Wan, demolition of the old Shau Kei Wan Market began on 15th June, 1970 and a new market, to be built on the same site, is expected to be completed in about a year's time. This market will be a 3-storey building and will provide facilities as follows:
(a) 31 stalls for the sale of meat, fish and poultry
(b) 71 stalls for vegetables and fruits, etc.
(c) a recreation area for children on the roof and quarters for the market staff.
Finally, in resettlement estates, an important feature of the hawker problem has been the illegal hawkers selling fresh provisions. In these places, early provision of proper marketing facilities for the sale of such commodities is essential before the hawker problem can be tackled satisfactorily. We are now embarking on a pilot scheme in the following three areas which are within this Council's jurisdiction—Hing Wah, Sau Mau Ping and Yau Tong. The plan is to provide marketing facilities quickly through the construction of specially designed modules which will, it is hoped, forestall the otherwise inevitable hawker problem. It is proposed to tackle the prevailing unsatisfactory conditions in existing estates in a similar manner in the near future.
I hope Mr. Hu finds this answer satisfactory.
MR. HU:-Mr. Chairman, certainly I find it most satisfactory, because in 1965-66 the idea of building more hawker bazaars in order to solve the hawker problem was a matter raised by me, and I also want to take this opportunity to congratulate the Markets Select Committee's efforts in planning and building a lot of markets. It really should be congratulated for that, and
CHAIRMAN:-Is that a supplementary?
(Laughter).
MR. HU:-Yes, I just come to my supplementary. My question is the idea true that to build more markets, more hawker bazaars, it is a great contribution to solving the hawker problem?
MR. LOBO:-Well, markets are always connected with hawkers. In fact, hawkers always surround markets. The plan is to incorporate a number of stalls within the markets, whenever possible, and where there is not enough space then hawkers bazaars should be built near enough to the market to solve this problem.
MR. HU: So there is a positive contribution to solve the hawker problem.
MR. LOBO: I believe so.
MR. HU:-Thank you for that. I have no supplementaries.
MR. BERNACCHI:-I have one, Mr. Chairman. Is the new Ngau Tau Kok Market, incorporating a hawker bazaar, under construction yet or not?
MR. LOBO:-I think it is in the planning stage, if I'm not mistaken.
MR. BERNACCHI:-The answer was "either nearing the construction stage, or actually under construction". So it is nearing the construction stage?
MR. LOBO:-Yes, that's right. The Shau Kei Wan is now under construction; the other two I mentioned, Shek Tong Tsui and Ngau Tau Kok, the land is provided and it's just a matter of tenders and planning.
MR. BERNACCHI:-When, approximately, will it be under construction?
MR. LOBO:-This will depend on the finance. I am afraid it is out of my hands.
CHAIRMAN:-I think, Mr. BERNACCHI, it is under construction.
MR. BERNACCHI:-Then, are there any plans for controlling the hawkers in Ngau Tau Kok, when this new market, incorporating the hawker bazaar, is fully constructed?
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Tau Kok, are either nearing the construction stage or actually under construction. Sites have been reserved for a number of other markets which have not yet reached the planning stage. Of the markets planned, seven incor- porate hawker bazaars, and three other separate hawker bazaars are also in the planning programme. These are:-
Markets Incorporating Hawker Bazaars
New Aberdeen Market
New Ngau Tau Kok Market
New Hung Hom Market
Waterloo Road Market
New Kowloon City Market
Market at junction of Wan Chai
Road and Bowrington Road
New Quary Bay Market
Hawker Bazaars
Aberdeen Reservoir
Road
Po On Street
Soy Street near Sai Yee
Street
As for Shau Kei Wan, demolition of the old Shau Kei Wan Market began on 15th June, 1970 and a new market, to be built on the same site, is expected to be completed in about a year's time. This market will be a 3-storey building and will provide facilities as follows:
(a) 31 stalls for the sale of meat, fish and poultry (b) 71 stalls for vegetables and fruits, etc.
(c) a recreation area for children on the roof and quarters
for the market staff.
Finally, in resettlement estates, an important feature of the hawker problem has been the illegal hawkers selling fresh provisions. In these places, early provision of proper marketing facilities for the sale of such commodities is essential before the hawker problem can be tackled satis- factorily. We are now embarking on a pilot scheme in the following three areas which are within this Council's jurisdiction-Hing Wah, Sau Mau Ping and Yau Tong. The plan is to provide marketing facilities quickly through the construction of specially designed modules which will, it is hoped, forestall the otherwise inevitable hawker problem. It is proposed to tackle the prevailing unsatis- factory conditions in existing estates in a similar manner in the near future.
I hope Mr. Hu finds this answer satisfactory.
MR. HU:-Mr. Chairman, certainly I find it most satisfactory, because in 1965-66 the idea of building more hawker bazaars in order to solve the hawker problem was a matter raised by me, and I also
want to take this opportunity to congratulate the Markets Select Com- mittee's efforts in planning and building a lot of markets. It really should be congratulated for that, and
CHAIRMAN: -Is that a supplementary?
(Laughter).
MR. HU: --Yes, I just come to my supplementary. My question is the idea true that to build more markets, more hawker bazaars, it is a great contribution to solving the hawker problem?
MR. LOBO:-Well, markets are always connected with hawkers. In fact, hawkers always surround markets. The plan is to incorporate a number of stalls within the markets, whenever possible, and where there is not enough space then hawkers bazaars should be built near enough to the market to solve this problem.
MR. HU: So there is a positive contribution to solve the hawker problem.
MR. LOBO:I believe so.
MR. HU:-Thank you for that. I have no supplementaries.
MR. BERNACCHI:-I have one, Mr. Chairman. Is the new Ngau Tau Kok Market, incorporating a hawker bazaar, under construction yet or not?
MR. LOBO:-I think it is in the planning stage, if I'm not mistaken.
MR. BERNACCHI:-The answer was "either nearing the construction stage, or actually under construction". So it is nearing the construction stage?
MR. LOBO:-Yes, that's right. The Shau Kei Wan is now under construction; the other two I mentioned, Shek Tong Tsui and Ngau Tau Kok, the land is provided and it's just a matter of tenders and planning.
MR. BERNACCHI :-When, approximately, will it be under construc- tion?
MR. LOBO:-This will depend on the finance. I am afraid it is out of my hands.
CHAIRMAN: ---I think, Mr. BERNACCHI, it is under construction.
MR. BERNACCHI:-Then, are there any plans for controlling the hawkers in Ngau Tau Kok, when this new market, incorporating the hawker bazaar, is fully constructed?
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