MRS. GRACE Ho (in Cantonese): Mr. Chairman, I thank Mr. SHUM for his reply. From the Appendix, we can see that some of the stalls remain unlet and some of them are let for other purposes. The Bowrington Road market is one of the modern markets with all sorts of modern facilities, and in looking at the table, we can see that there are 52 stalls being used for storage purpose. I would like to have an explanation for that. Secondly, I would like to point out that in a densely populated area like Wong Tai Sin, there are 125 stalls in the market used for storage purposes, it is pointed out in the Appendix that this is because of hawkers hawking in the vicinity of the market, so would it be very difficult to improve the situation?
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UTILIZATION OF MARKET STALLS IN THE URBAN AREA
(Position as at 5.9.83)
Stalls used for
Name of Market
No. of Stalls
%
Vacant Stalls storage purpose
No.
No.
%
Remarks
Name of Market
No. of Stalls
Vacant Stalls
No.
%
Stalls used for storage purpose
No.
%
Remarks
Wong Tai Sin
Wong Tai Sin
Hammer Hill Temp.
Tai Shing St. Temp.
567
4
0.17
273
†Stalls on upper G/F
10
3.66
347
43 12.39
18 125+ 36.0
6.6
Non-viable because
of large no. of
Yuen Ling
34
2.94
2.9
hawkers within
Central
Bridges Street
36
I
Central
286
8
NN
2.8
2.8
00 00
Hollywood Road
225
1
8*
22.2
24
8.4
0.4
Eastern
*Stalls located on 1/F non-viable for retail business
Mong Kok
Boundary Street Fa Yuen St. Temp.
adjacent housing estates
223
32
20
24
75
Market poorly located & to be
Lee Chung St.
8
North Point
42
Quarry Bay Temp.
9
Sai Wan Ho Temp.
453
Shau Kei Wan
90
Yue Wan
434
1119-1
43
158111
9.5
Southern
Aberdeen
344
Ap Lei Chau
32
Stanley
24
Tin Wan
197
Yue Kwong Road
220
13
32
16.2
1.4
23
1648m
0.3
18.8
Mong Kok
Tong Mei Road Temp.
148
133
-1
1 0.7
32+ 21.6 561
42.1
viable because of on-
street competition,
demolished on
completion of Tai Kok Tsui Complex in 1986.
Mini-stalls non-
16.7
4.1
10.5
Wan Chai
Bowrington Road
311
4
1.3
Causeway Bay
16
Southorn Temp.
180
(57) (31.7)
Tang Lung Chau
73
Wan Chai
91
Wong Nai Chung
21
تاذات /
52
16.7
Sham Shui Po
11
6.1
(Reserved for
Cheung Sha Wan
6
8.2
restricted auction by
Cheung Sha Wan CFC
Sham Shui Po
326
43
29
(3) (10.3)
85
Tong Mei Road
Temp. Market to be
closed in 1986. Preliminary planning for redeveloping Mong Kok Market in hand.
(Frozen for
restricted auction by on-street resitees)
12
7.7
on-street resitees)
Yau Ma Tei
Western
Haiphong Rd. Temp.
145
Centre Street
88
5
Kennedy Town
134
North Street
37
Sai Ying Pun
89
(15) (16.9)
Shek Tong Tsui
71
5119
Kwun Chung
77
3.9
5.7
2.8
Smithfield Temp.
31
1
Western
112
(6)
3.25 5.4
| | 411
Yau Ma Tei
149
0.7
17
11.4
1.4
(Frozen for renovation of market)
Total
6 378 277
4.3
457
7.2
(Frozen for M.T.R. Work)
Kowloon City
Ho Man Tin
38
Hung Hom
Kowloon City
97
On Ching Road*
To Kwa Wan Temp.
3533
75
2 2.67
13
6 46.15*
13
Kwun Tong
Kwun Tong
8
2
25
Ngau Tau Kok
372
12
3.23
32
8.6
Sze Shan Street
17
Cha Kwo Ling
*Market located behind funeral parlour
MRS. GRACE Ho (in Cantonese): Mr. Chairman, I thank Mr. SHUM for his reply. From the Appendix, we can see that some of the stalls remain unlet and some of them are let for other purposes. The Bowrington Road market is one of the modern markets with all sorts of modern facilities, and in looking at the table, we can see that there are 52 stalls being used for storage purpose. I would like to have an explanation for that. Secondly, I would like to point out that in a densely populated area like Wong Tai Sin, there are 125 stalls in the market used for storage purposes, it is pointed out in the Appendix that this is because of hawkers hawking in the vicinity of the market, so would it be very difficult to improve the situation?
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