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IN JULY, THE NUMBER OF SITES FOR TENDERING IS 12, WHICH TOTAL 73 129.7 SQUARE METRES. TWO OF THE SITES ARE INDUSTRIAL (11 807 SQUARE METRES), EIGHT ARE RESIDENTIAL (51 827 SQUARE METRES) AND TWO ARE NON-INDUSTRIAL (9 495 SQUARE METRES), THE SITES ARE ON TSING YI ISLAND (ONE), SAI KUNG (ONE), SHA TIN (FIVE), TUEN MUN (TWO) AND YUEN LONG (THRÉE). THE TWO TUEN MUN SITES ARE IN CONNECTION WITH THE TOWN CENTRE AND ARE FOR NON-INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT.
IN SEPTEMBER TEN SITES TOTALLING 72 235 SQUARE METRES IN AREA WILL BE OFFERED.
TWO, TOGETHER MEASURING 9 770 SQUARE METRES, ARE IN SAI KUNG FOR RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT FOUR MEASURING 56 515 SQUARE METRES ARE IN SHA TIN FOR RESIDENTIAL, COMMERCIAL/RESIDENTIAL, INDUSTRIAL OR COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT, ONE IN TUEN MUN MEASURING 1 600 SQUARE METRES IS FOR INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT- AND THREE MEASURING 4 350 SQUARE METRES ARE IN YUEN LONG FOR RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT.
A SITE IN TUEN MUN TO BE DISPOSED OF BY CASH TENDER IN AUGUST MEASURES 1 740 SQUARE METRES AND IS FOR A DANGEROUS GOODS STORE.
SUMMARISING THE INTENDED SALES PROGRAMME, THE NTA SPOKESMAN SAID 20 SITES WERE RESIDENTIAL MEASURING 118 626.7 SQUARE METRES- 11 WERE INDUSTRIAL, MEASURING 36 834 SQUARE METRES TWO WERE COMMERCIAL/RESIDENTIAL, MEASURING 6 178 SQUARE METRES TWO WERE COMMERCIAL, MEASURING 29 619 SQUARE METRES AND TWO WERE NON-INDUSTRIAL. MEASURING 9 495 SQUARE METRES. THE REMAINING SITE WAS FOR THE DANGEROUS GOODS STORE IN TUEN MUN.
HE STRESSED THAT THE PROGRAMME WAS PROVISIONAL AND COULD BE CHANGED.
CROPS UNDER NETS WEATHERED HAILSTORM
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THE USE OF PLASTIC NET-HOUSES TO PROTECT CROPS IN ADVERSE WEATHER, INITIATED BY THE AGRICULTURE AND FISHERIES DEPARTMENT THREE YEARS AGO, PROVED VALUABLE ONCE AGAIN DURING THE RECENT HAILSTORM IN SOME PARTS OF HONG KONG.
THE HAILSTORM ON MARCH 5 DESTROYED ABOUT 85 PER CENT OF THE CROPS IN SAP PAT HEUNG BUT VEGETABLES GROWING IN NET-HOUSES IN THESE AREAS WERE NOT AFFECTED AND WERE FURTHER PROTECTED FROM DAMAGE CAUSED BY THE HEAVY RAIN THE FOLLOWING MORNING.
MISS VERA SO, ACTING SENIOR AGRICULTURAL OFFICER OF THE DEPARTMENT'S CROP DIVISION SAID THE PLASTIC NET-HOUSE TECHNIQUE WAS INTRODUCED IN HONG KONG IN 1977 AFTER SERVERAL YEARS OF EXTENSIVE RESEARCH AND EXPERIMENTATION IN BOTH THE DEPARTMENT'S FARMS AND LOCAL FIELDS.
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