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HONG KONG DOMERNMENT INFORMATION SERVICES
DAILY
INFORMATION BULLETIN
Wednesday, August 30, 1972
IMPROVED CROSS-HARBOUR TRANSPORT FACILITIES.
The Hongkong and Yaumati Ferry Company has proposed changes in its
vehicular ferry services and these will provide for a better spread of cross-
harbour transport facilities which will benefit the community as a whole.
This was stated today by the Financial Secretary, the Hon. C.P.
Haddon-Cave, in the Legislative Council while moving a motion on amendments to
the Schedule to the Hongkong and Yaumati Ferry Company (Services) Ordinance.
With the opening of the cross-harbour tunnel, the company had applied
for the introduction of a new service from North Point to Kwun Tong, and from
Jubilee Street to Tai Kok Tsui, while maintaining the present Jubilee Street-
Jordan Road service.
Another proposed change, he said, was the termination of the existing
North Point-Kowloon City service when the proposed North Point-Kwun Tong service
came into operation.
The Financial Secretary said the proposed changes were designed to
achieve four objectives:
To minimise the duplication of services between the vehicular
ferries and the cross-harbour tunnel;
To reduce to a minimum redundancies among ferry vessels and
workers;
To encourage a complementary cross-harbour transport system; and
To relieve .............