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enable planning of the Kowloon Point district and the Hung Hom reclamation to proceed.

A private firm has commissioned consultants to investigate the construction of a cross-harbour bridge, and Government has agreed to reserve sites for the probable terminal points for a further year until September 1960. The consultants' report is expected to be available sometime before this date. In the mean- time planning of additional cross-harbour ferry services has con- tinued.

The new central reclamation and the surrender of Military and Naval lands in the central part of the city presents a challenge and a great opportunity. Government announced in November that the Town Planning Board had been instructed to prepare development proposals and the Board's plans, which will require to be published for public comment, will be awaited with interest. The Board in a statement following the Government announce- ment expressed the hope that the public would play its part in the planning of these areas and invited suggestions.

Great interest is shown in the planning and development of the Colony generally by visitors, particularly from other parts of Asia. Every effort is made to keep in touch with planning trends in other Asian countries with similar problems, and during recent years officers of the Planning Division have taken part in a num- ber of conferences on this subject.

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