FRIDAY, MARCH 28, 1980
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HE ALSO CITED SIMILAR CHANGES WITH THE FISHING INDUSTRY OF WHICH 95 PER CENT OF THE FLEET WAS NOW MECHANISED AND ABOUT A THIRD OF THE FLEET WAS CAPABLE OF FISHING IN DISTANT AND OFF-SHORE WATERS.
BESIDES THE HARD WORK BY PRIMARY PRODUCERS, THEIR ACHIEVEMENTS HAVE BEEN ASSISTED BY LOW-INTEREST LOAN FUNDS ADMINISTERED BY THE DEPARTMENT. IN 1956 LOANS ISSUED TO FARMERS AND FISHERMEN AMOUNTED TO $2.7 MILLION WHILE IN 1980 THEY AMOUNT TO $17.6 MILLION,
BUT OF THE FUTURE, HE SAID IN FISHING WE MUST EXPECT THAT THERE WILL BE EVEN GREATER PRESSURE ON THE STOCKS OF FISH TRADITIONALLY CAUGHT BY THE LOCAL FLEET. TO OFFSET THIS AND TO KEEP PACE WITH INCREASING DEMAND, WE WILL NEED TO EXPLORE AND DEVELOP OTHER SOURCES, PARTICULARLY THE PELAGIC RESOURCES OF OUR SURROUNDING SEAS.+
AND BESIDES THE LOSS OF GOOD QUALITY AGRICULTURE LAND THROUGH URBANISATION HE WARNED OF AGRICULTURAL WASTE POLLUTION.
+WITH THE INTRODUCTION OF MORE INTENSIVE METHODS OF FARMING AND AN INCREASE IN THE LIVESTOCK POPULATION, GREATER ATTENTION WILL ALSO NEED TO BE DEVOTED TO THE PROBLEM OF THE PROPER DISPOSAL OF AGRICULTURAL WASTES AND IN THIS THE AGRICULTURE AND FISHERIES DEPARTMENT WILL BE ONLY TOO HAPPY TO ADVISE AND ASSIST, SAID MR RIDDELL-SWAN.
PRISONS DEPARTMENT TO OPEN ANOTHER WOMEN'S CENTRE
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THE PRISONS DEPARTMENT WILL HAVE ANOTHER CENTRE FOR WOMEN IN MAY THIS YEAR WHEN THE TAI TAM GAP CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTION BECOMES AN INSTITUTION FOR YOUNG FEMALE OFFENDERS.
THIS WAS DISCLOSED TODAY (FRIDAY) BY THE COMMISSIONER OF PRISONS, MR T.G. GARNER, AT THE PRESENTATION OF COLONIAL PRISON SERVICE MEDALS AND CLASPS AT THE DEPARTMENT'S STAFF TRAINING INSTITUTE.
MR GARNER SAID IN THE HISTORY OF THE PRISON SERVICE IN HONG KONG, THERE HAD ONLY EVER BEEN ONE INSTITUTION TO CATER FOR WOMEN AND GIRLS, AND THAT WAS PRESENTLY THE TAI LAM CENTRE FOR WOMEN.
THE CENTRE WAS ORIGINALLY PLANNED AS A PRISON BUT IN ORDER TO PROVIDE DIFFERENT PROGRAMMES FOR WOMEN AND GIRLS, IT WAS DIVIDED INTO THREE SECTIONS: A PRISON, A DRUG ADDICTION TREATMENT CENTRE AND A TRAINING CENTRE.
+HOWEVER, THE TIME HAS NOW COME TO OPEN A SEPARATE INSTITUTION FOR GIRLS UNDER 21 SO THAT THE TRAINING CENTRE SECTION CAN FUNCTION INDEPENDENTLY WHICH WILL HAVE DISTINCT ADVANTAGES, MR GARNER SAID.
+ IT WILL ALSO ENABLE THE DEPARTMENT TO PROVIDE SEPARATE ACCOMMODATION FOR GIRLS UNDER 21 SENTENCED TO IMPRISONMENT, HE ADDED.
/POINTING CUT