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HONG KONG ANNUAL REPORT, 1954

is anticipated that accommodation for more than 3,000 persons will be provided on the site, which is about 31 acres in area.

The total cost of these schemes is estimated to be about $32,000,000. It is expected that the flats will be completed by about twenty months from the date of approval of the schemes.

A further site of about 14 acres at Li Cheng Uk has been allocated to the Authority and it is now being surveyed. Other sites are under consideration.

Private Housing.-Extensive private development continued throughout the year and progress was made by several Co-operative Housing Societies. The Yau Yat Chung Development Company on the area north of Boundary Street and the Hong Kong Home Building Society at Kau Lung Tsai and Jardine's Lookout, com- pleted many domestic buildings. The additional flats of the Hong Kong Model Housing Society referred to in last year's report and the erection of blocks of flats by the Hong Kong Housing Society at Ma Tau Wei Road was under way. Another housing scheme at Tai Kok Tsui sponsored by the Hong Kong Economic Housing Society for low cost housing for middle class workers was also in progress. The cost of the site formation for the flats built by the Hong Kong Housing Society is being met from Colonial Development and Welfare Funds.

Buildings.—778 plans involving the construction of 2,055 buildings were submitted to the Director of Public Works for approval. These included 921 European type buildings, 931 Chinese type buildings, 86 factories, 3 hotels, 3 cinemas and theatres, 15 schools, 5 churches,

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