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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1980
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SIR MURRAY SAID THE CAMPAIGN AGAINST DRUG TRAFFICKING AND DRUG ADDICTION HAD CONTINUED TO BE SUCCESSFUL.
HE NOTED THAT DUE TO THE SUCCESS OF LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES IN INTERCEPTING SUPPLIES, THE PRICE OF HEROIN IS STILL THREE TIMES THAT OF JUNE LAST YEAR.
+THE GOVERNMENT AND VOLUNTARY AGENCIES ARE DOING EVERYTHING THEY CAN TO EXPLOIT THIS SITUATION TO FREE ADDICTS FROM THE IR ADDICTION, HE STRESSED.
OUTLINING THE SIGNIFICANT ACHIEVEMENTS REELECTING GROWING SUPPORT AND ASSISTANCE FROM THE PUBLIC, SIR MURRAY POINTED OUT THAT AN AVERAGE OF 7 000 PERSONS NOW ATTENDED THE 22 METHADONE CLINICS DAILY AND ANOTHER 7 000 WERE UNDERGOING OTHER FORMS OF VOLUNTARY OR COMPULSORY TREATMENT, REHABILITATION AND AFTER-CARE.
+COMPARED WITH AN ESTIMATED ADDICT POPULATION OF ABOUT 40 000 THIS FIGURE OF 14 000 UNDER CARE REPRESENTS GOOD COVERAGE, HE REMARKED.
ON THE INCIDENCE OF YOUNG PEOPLE'S ADDICTION, SIR MURRAY SAID THAT THE FIGURE HAD CONTINUED TO DECREASE.
HE POINTED OUT THAT BETWEEN 1973 AND 1979, THE NUMBER OF ADDICTS UNDER 21 YEARS OF AGE ADMITTED TO PRISONS DEPARTMENT DRUG ADDICTION TREATMENT CENTRES, AND TO THE VOLUNTARY CENTRE AT SHEK KWU CHAU, DECLINED BY 66 PER CENT AND 72 PER CENT RESPECTIVELY.
+AT PRESENT MINORS ACCOUNT FOR ONLY FOUR PER CENT OF INMATES IN DRUG ADDICTION TREATMENT CENTRES AND TWO PER CENT OF THOSE BEING TREATED AT SHEK KWU CHAU, HE ADDED.
LAND PLANNING ADMINISTRATION AND PRODUCTION UNDER REVIEW *******
A COMPLETE REVIEW OF THE SYSTEM OF LAND PLANNING ADMINISTRATION AND PRODUCTION AND THE ASSOCIATION OF UNOFFICIALS WITH IT IS BEING UNDERTAKEN, THE GOVERNOR, SIR MURRAY MACLEHOSE, TOLD THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY).
HE SAID HE ATTACHED IMPORTANCE TO THE WORK OF THE SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON LAND PRODUCTION, NOW CHAIRED BY MISS LYDIA DUNN, BECAUSE THE HIGH COST OF LAND +DOES US NO GOOD, TO SOME EXTENT OFF-SETTING THE MANY ATTRACTIONS WHICH HONG KONG OTHERWISE OFFERS INVESTORS.+
THANKS TO THE EXERTIONS OF THE LAND AUTHORITIES, SIR MURRAY SAID THE FIGURE OF 120 NET HECTARES HE FORECAST LAST YEAR TO BE AVAILABLE FOR SALE UP TO MARCH 31, 1982, HAD BEEN RAISED BY 25 PER CENT TO 150 HECTARES, AND EVEN THIS MIGHT WELL BE EXCEEDED.
+WITH REGARD TO LAND SALES IN 1982/83 A TARGET HAS BEEN SET BY THE COMMITTEE OF 50 HECTARES NET OF PRIVATE RESIDENTIAL AND 30 HECTARES NET FOR LIGHT INDUSTRIAL USE.
/+THIS DOES