ELECTRICITY SUPPLY TO KAMPONG DWELLERS (Obstruction by landowner)

Mr Sim Boon Woo asked the Deputy Prime Minister if he is aware that the efforts of the Public Utilities Board to provide domestic electricity supply to kampong dwellers at their request are being hampered by a landowner who has refused his consent to the erection on his property of wooden poles to carry overhead cables, and what action he proposes to take in the matter.

The Parliamentary Secretary to the Deputy Prime Minister (Inche Buang Bin Omar Junid) (for the Deputy Prime Minister): (In Malay): Mr Speaker, Sir, I have been asked by the Deputy Prime Minister to reply.

When the major part of the work connected with the provision of electricity supply to the kampong dwellers in the Siak Kuan Road area in Changi was completed on 15th October, 1965, the owner of the land of a certain portion of the kampong objected to the poles which had been erected on his land. The matter was subsequently resolved through the good offices of the District Officer in Katong and electricity supply has been made available to all the kampong dwellers since 18th April, 1967.