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From a fishing village in the pastto the present prosperous city,Tsuen Wan has truly undergone

great changes,” Mr. Ho Wing Kwong of theTsuen Wan Commerce Associationexclaimed. According to his recollection, thedistrict had started to develop before WorldWar II. At that time the old street, which isnow the area around Tak Wa Park, was verybusy. Yet today few people know this street.

Electricity supply and the development ofTsuen Wan are closely related. In 1933,when the construction of Shing MunReservoir started, it marked the beginningof cooperation between electricity supplyand Tsuen Wan’s community development.As early as the Japanese occupation period,there had been a small number of industriesand there was already an electricity supply.However, according to Mr. Chan Lau Fongof the Tsuen Wan Rural Committee, evenwhen the Japanese occupation period endedand electricity supply was restored, peoplewere still living in poverty. Not so manyfamilies could afford the electricity charges.Mr. Chan recalls clearly that the electriccompany charged a large sum forinstallation fees in those days. Some of thefamilies could not afford it. Usually theelectric bulbs used by rural people were 15 Wor lower and this required only a smallamount of electricity.

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During the early postwar years,the population of this districtincreased to four to f ive

thousand. Hence, the government decidedto develop Tsuen Wan into Hong Kong’sfirst satellite town. Industry and commercewere also on the rise. In the early 1950s,industrialists from mainland China came toHong Kong to build factories. Among thesewere factories engaged in makingchinaware, cloth and weaving. The workingpopulation also rose.

Between 1954 and 1959, the governmentencouraged industrialists to buy farmlandsto be converted into proper industrial landfor building factories. At that time, weavingwas the chief industry, and the factoriesincluded China Dye Works, South SeaQuilts, Yik Fung, Nam Fung, Fu Wah andTai Ping Woollen Products. All theseenterprises built new factories. Tsuen Wanrapidly became one of the newly emergentindustrial areas of Hong Kong. However, asMr. Tsang Yan Fat of Tsuen Wan KwaiTsing Residents’ Association tells, aspeople’s income increased and the use of air-conditioners became more common,electricity consumption also rapidlyincreased. This caused a problem ofinsufficient electricity supply. CLP couldonly attempt to increase output to meet therapidly growing demand.

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Mr. Kwan Wang Yuen of theNew Territories Associationof Industry and Commerce still

remembers people’s use of electricalappliances in those days. Ordinary workershad low incomes. Most of them boughtelectric fans, radios and other cheaperelectric products made in China. Theseproducts mainly came from Shanghai. Themost famous brand was Wa Seng ElectricFans, which was the number one in sales.For radios the most popular brand wasPeony.

The Tsuen Wan Association of Commercehas a long history. One of its members, Mr.Chu Chung Sing has lived in the district sincethe pre-war days. He still remembers howat that time around Chuen Lung Street therewere many shops selling old-style clothesand electrical appliances. There were stillno big department stores and the electricalappliances business was mainly in the handsof small shops.

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To satisfy the demand for electricity in thisimportant satellite town, CLP conducted acomprehensive research study. Mr. Fu Hopof Tsuen Wan Rural Committee recallssome vivid scenes. At that time there wasno road to Ching Fai Tong Village in TsuenWan, but only small paths. There were toomany trees and bushes, and CLP workershad to work with the help of helicopters.They even needed to use helicopters totransport equipment and cables to finish theconstruction work. In whatever area thecables and posts were erected, the ruralpeople there would go to CLP to apply forcompensation.

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The New Territories in the 1960s, with a good harvest of rice; the KAAA often assisted in agricultural production

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T he Kadoories, especially SirHorace Kadoorie, treated thepeople of the New Territories very

well. Mr. Fu calls him a philanthropist. SirHorace once distributed grapes to the ruralpeople from his car, travelling throughoutthe New Territories. If by certification of thevillage chief, someone was proved to be inpoverty or widowed, Sir Horace would givemoney to help. Sometimes he would givecows to poor people. For those who had nofarmland, he would give a pig instead, andthus help improve their lives. When suchpeople had succeeded to change theirfortune, they would return the money tohim. However, there were no strict rulesforcing them to do so, and no one would askthem.

Human concern, like electricity, bringswarmth to a community. Many other heart-warming stories could also be told.

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