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LAND AND HOUSING

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(b) Sheung Li Uk, with 270 flats for 1,400 people: 90 more flats are under construction. Inclusive monthly rents range from $61 to $80.

(c) Ma Tau Chung, with 184 cottages housing 1,032

people. The inclusive rent is $30 a month.

(d) Healthy Village, North Point, with 598 flats for 3,833 people, in five blocks of ten and eleven storeys. The first part has been completed, and work on the second section is in hand.

(e) Kwun Tong, where site formation is in progress for 1,000 flats, to house nearly 7,000 people in six-storey blocks.

(f) Tsuen Wan, in the New Territories (the first scheme of its sort in that area). Site formation has started for an estate of 469 flats, each to hold five or seven persons, with a total population of about 3,000 people. Other voluntary societies interested in low-cost housing include the Hong Kong Model Housing Society, which in 1952 completed 100 flats in an estate at North Point and in subsequent years has added a further 200 flats; and the Hong Kong Economic Housing Society, which in 1956 completed its estate housing 280 families at Lady Grantham Villas in Kowloon.

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Amongst employers, there have been two tendencies, the first of which is exemplified by the textile and other modern factories which have included in their premises dormitory- type accommodation for their workers (but not families). The second method, that of constructing flats for employees and their families, has been followed, for example, by the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, which has erected 200 flats for its local staff; Hongkong Tramways Ltd., which during 1957 built 110 flats at North Point (making a total of 265 housing 1,800 people); the China Motor Bus Co., Ltd., which houses 200 workers and their families; the Hongkong Electric Co., Ltd., which has provided accommodation for 259 of its Chinese employees and their