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Sandwich class get flats boost

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HONGKONG will ask the Land Commission to grant six hectares of land to allow the construction of 5,000 Housing Society flats by 1996 to be sold to ''sandwich class'' people at a discount price.

The Secretary for Planning, Environment and Lands, Mr Tony Eason said that the Government had proposed in the 1993-94 Land Disposal Programme to grant the land to the society at concessionary prices expected to be about half the full market value.

Although the meeting of the Sino-British Joint Liaison Group has been affected by the recent political row, Mr Eason did not believe the Land Commission would encounter similar difficulties.

''The Land Commission has always worked very positively and constructively to agree on a land disposal programme to meet the needs of the economy. There is no reason to believe there would not be a meeting,'' Mr Eason said.

''I expect we would have a meeting in the normal way but we have yet to agree on the date.'' The Land Commission is due to meet this month, and several dates have been proposed to the Chinese side.

Mr Eason said the six hectares proposed included sites in Tseung Kwan O and Ma On Shan.

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