Land resumption for drainage improvement works in Ho Chung
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    The Lands Department will resume 28 private agricultural lots with a total area of about 3,439 square metres in the area of Ho Chung, Sai Kung to facilitate drainage improvement works to alleviate the flooding problem there.

     A notice for the land resumption was published in the Gazette today (December 22).

     The project is scheduled to begin in April, 2007, for completion in December, 2009.

Ends/Friday, December 22, 2006
Issued at HKT 11:30

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