TUESDAY, JUNE 1, 1976.
COMPLETION OF ANOTHER IRRIGATION DEVELOPMENT SCHEME
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FARMERS IN SHAM WAT, NEAR TAI 0, ON LANTAU ISLAND WILL NOW HAVE ADEQUATE IRRIGATION WATER, EVEN IN DRY SEASONS, WITH THE COMPLETION OF AN IRRIGATION DEVELOPMENT SCHEME IN THE AREA.
THE SCHEME, COSTING $115,000 TO BUILD, CONSISTS OF 9,300 FEET OF PIPELINE CAPABLE OF SUPPLYING IRRIGATION WATER TO TEN" ACRES OF AGRICULTURAL LAND.
IT WILL BE HANDED OVER BY THE AGRICULTURE AND FISHERIES EPARTMENT TO THE FARMERS AT A CEREMONY TO BE HELD AT SAN SHEK WAN ON THURSDAY (JUNE 3) AT 11.30 A.M.
OFFICIATING AT THE HANDING-OVER CEREMONY WILL BE MR. A.E. BACKHURST, AGRICULTURAL ENGINEER (IRRIGATION DEVELOPMENT) AND MR. P.H. LAW, ACTING SENIOR EXTENSION OFFICER (AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION).
DOLPHINS PROTECTED UNDER WILD ANIMALS PROTECTION ORDINANCE
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THE DIRECTOR OF AGRICULTURE AND FISHERIES, MR. TED NICHOLS, TODAY REMINDED THE PUBLIC THAT ALL DOLPHINS AND OTHER MARINE MAMMALS IN HONG KONG ARE FULLY PROTECTED UNDER THE WILD ANIMALS PROTECTION ORDINANCE, 1976.
THE STATEMENT FOLLOWED PRESS REPORTS THAT SKIN DIVERS ESCORTING LINDA MCGILL IN HER ATTEMPT TO SWIM ROUND THE ISLAND HAD ARMED THEMSELVES WITH SPEAR-GUNS AFTER SIGHTING A SCHOOL OF DOLPHINS.
+ANY PERSON WHO CONTRAVENES THE LAW SHALL BE GUILTY OF AN OFFENCE AND SHALL BE LIABLE ON CONVICTION TO A FINE OF $5,000,+ MR. NICHOLS SAID.
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