SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1979
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+FIVE YEARS AGO WHEN THE FEE WAS $10 WE ISSUED 9 000 FISHING LICENCES, THE SPOKESMAN SAID.
+THIS FIGURE DROPPED TO 6 700 IN 1976/77 WHEN WE RAISED THE FEE TO $20, AND DECLINED FURTHER TO 4 500 FOR 1977/78.
+ IN THE LAST FISHING SEASON THE NUMBER OF APPLICATIONS ROSE AGAIN TO SOME 7 000,+ HE ADDED.
THE SPOKESMAN EXPLAINED THAT FISHING FRY WERE INITIALLY INTRODUCED INTO RESERVOIRS WHEN THEY WERE FIRST BUILT TO HELP KEEP THE RESERVOIRS CLEAN. FISH INTRODUCED INCLUDED VARIOUS SPECIES OF CARP, BASS, TILAPIA AND SNAKE-HEAD.
HE POINTED OUT THERE ARE RULES TO OBSERVE IN RESERVOIR FISHING AND THESE ARE PRINTED ON THE REVERSE SIDE OF THE FISHING LICENCE.
APART FROM THESE RULES, THE SPOKESMAN URGED MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC WHO FREQUENT RESERVOIR AREAS TO OBSERVE THE FOLLOWING 1---
* DO NOT SWIM IN RESERVOIRS,
* DO NOT LITTER OR POLLUTE THE WATER.
CONTRAVENTION OF THESE RULES COULD BRING HEAVY FINES.
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SWIMMING MEET HELPS FOSTER INTER-OFFICE HARMONY PWD CHIEF
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THE 11TH PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT SWIMMING GALA WAS HELD AT THE ABERDEEN POOL TODAY (SUNDAY) WITH HUNDREDS OF STAFF BATTLING IT OUT FOR THE HONOURS IN 25 EVENTS.
IT WAS AN AFTERNOON OF THRILLS AND SPILLS AS THE MEN AND WOMEN COMPETED IN FREESTYLE, BACKSTROKE, BREASTSTROKE AND BUTTERFLY EVENTS,
THERE WERE RELAYS AND MEDLEYS AS WELL, AND ONE OF THE AQUATIC HIGHLIGHTS OF THE AFTERNOON WAS A WATERPOLO MATCH BETWEEN TWO OF THE TOP TEAMS IN HONG KONG, THE HONG KONG SELECTION AND THE WRECKS+,
ADDED COLOUR CAME FROM THIS YEAR'S MISS HONG KONG FIRST RUNNER- UP MARY NG, WHO CUT THE OPENING CEREMONY RIBBON WITH MRS. MCDONALD, WIFE OF THE PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT'S DIRECTOR, AND LATER DREW THE RAFFLE NUMBERS.
IN HIS OPENING ADDRESS THE DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS, MR. DAVID MCDONALD, SAID THAT MEETINGS SUCH AS THE SWIMMING GALA WERE
IMPORTANT INTER-OFFICE ACTIVITIES AND HELPED TO FOSTER HARMONY.