SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1979
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WARNING ON ANIMAL SOUVENIRS
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RESIDENTS RETURNING TO HONG KONG FROM OVERSEAS AND CHINA ARE REMINDED NOT TO BRING BACK SOUVENIRS OF LIVE OR PRESERVED ANIMAL SPECIMENS LISTED UNDER THE ANIMALS AND PLANTS (PROTECTION OF ENDANGERED SPECIES) ORDINANCE.
THE WARNING WAS ISSUED TODAY (SUNDAY) BY THE AGRICULTURE AND FISHERIES DEPARTMENT WHICH NOTED THERE HAD BEEN MANY CASES RECENTLY THAT RETURNING RESIDENTS HAD BROUGHT BACK WITH THEM SOUVENIRS SUCH AS STUFFED SEA TURTLES AND CROCODILES, TIGER AND LEOPARD SKINS, A LIVE PANGOLIN AND A SCALEY ANT EATER.
ALL OF THESE ANIMALS AND SOME RARE PLANTS SUCH AS WILD ORCHIDS, CACTUS AND WILD AMERICAN GINSENG ARE PROTECTED BY LAW.
A SPOKESMAN FOR THE DEPARTMENT SAID IT WAS ILLEGAL FOR ANYONE TO IMPORT OR BE IN POSSESSION OF ENDANGERED SPECIES WITHOUT A LICENCE ISSUED BY THE DEPARTMENT.
HE ADDED THAT DURING THE PAST SIX MONTHS THERE HAD BEEN ABOUT 80 CASES OF THIS TYPE, MOST OF WHICH INVOLVED STUFFED SEA TURTLES BROUGHT IN FROM INDONESIA, THE PHILIPPINES AND OTHER SOUTHEAST ASIAN COUNTRIES.
+ANY OF THESE ARTICLES BROUGHT IN WITHOUT A LICENCE IS SEIZED BY ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS FROM THE DEPARTMENT AND THE CUSTOMS AND EXCISE SERVICE AND THE OFFENDERS PROSECUTED.
+THE MAXIMUM FINE FOR A FIRST OFFENCE UNDER THE ORDINANCE IS $5 000 AND THE SEIZED SPECIMENS ARE FORFEITED TO THE CROWN,+ HE SAID.
NORTH KWAI CHUNG TO GET NEW TYPE OF URBAN CLINIC
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A NEW TYPE OF STANDARD URBAN CLINIC WILL BE BUILT SHORTLY
IN NORTH KWAI CHUNG TO SERVE RESIDENTS IN THE AREA.
A SPOKESMAN FOR THE PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT SAID TODAY
(SUNDAY) THAT THE FOUR-STOREY CLINIC, AT THE JUNCTION OF WO Y! HOP ROAD AND LE! SHU ROAD OPPOSITE LEI MUK SHUE ESTATE, WILL
CONS IST OF A GENERAL OUT-PATIENT DEPARTMENT, A FAMILY HEALTH SERVICE CENTRE, A 24-BED MATERNITY HOME AND ANCILLARY FACILITIES SUCH AS A STAFF CANTEEN, KITCHEN AND STAFF CHANGING ROOMS.
+THE CLINIC IS SO DESIGNED THAT DAY-BEDS AND THERAPY FACILITIES CAN BE ADDED AT A LATER DATE IF THE EXPERIMENTAL SCHEME AT NGAU TAU KOK PROVES TO BE SUCCESSFUL, THE SPOKESMAN SAID.
MR. YEE-SUN WU AND HIS BROTHER MR. JIEH-YEE WU OF WING LUNG BANK HAVE JOINTLY PLEDGED A DONATION OF $2 MILLION TOWARDS THE CONSTRUCTION COST OF THE CLINIC WHICH WILL BE NAMED AFTER THEIR MOTHER, MRS. WU YORK-YU,
WORK ON THE PROJECT IS EXPECTED TO BEGIN IN FEBRUARY NEXT YEAR AND WILL TAKE ABOUT 11 MONTHS TO COMPLETE.
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