TUESDAY, AUGUST 17, 1982
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THE SPOKESMAN SAID LIVESTOCK LOSSES WERE RELATIVELY LIGHT AS FARMERS HAD TAKEN THE DEPARTMENT'S ADVICE FOLLOWING THE MAY RAINSTOMS AND WERE ABLE TO PROTECT MOST OF THEIR PIGS AND POULTRY. AN ESTIMATED 7 000 POULTRY, INCLUDING 5 000 CHICKS AND ABOUT 100 PIGS, WERE DROWNED IN THE FLOODS.
ALL AGRICULTURE AND FISHERIES DEPARTMENT DISTRICT OFFICES, INCLUDING AU TAU FISHERIES OFFICE, ARE OPEN TO RECEIVE APPLICATIONS FROM FARMERS FOR EMERGENCY RELIEF TO HELP COPE WITH THEIR CROP AND FISH LOSSES. SOME 15 MOBILE TEAMS FROM THE DEPARTMENT HAVE BEEN SENT TO THE WORST AFFECTED AREAS OF YUEN LONG, KAM TIN AND PAT HEUNG FOR ON-SITE INVESTIGATION.
YESTERDAY, LOCAL VEGETABLE SUPPLIES TO THE CHEUNG SHA WAN WHOLESALE VEGETABLE MARKET AMOUNTED TO ONLY 110 TONNES, AGAINST AN AVERAGE DAILY FIGURE OF ABOUT 150 TONNES.
UN CRIME PREVENTION CHIEF VISITS PIK UK
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THE CHIEF OF CRIME PREVENTION AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE BRANCH OF UNITED NATIONS, MR MINORU SHIKITA, VISITED THE PIK UK CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTION AND THE PIK UK PRISON TODAY (TUESDAY) TO LOOK OVER THE DIFFERENT TYPES OF WORK AND PROGRAMMES AT THE TWO INSTITUTIONS ADMINISTERED BY THE CORRECTIONAL SERVICES DEPARTMENT.
ACCOMPANIED BY THE ACTING COMMISSIONER OF CORRECTIONAL SERVICES, MR CHAN WA-SHEK, MR SHIKITA TOURED THE TWO INSTITUTIONS AND SAW THE ACCOMMODATIONS PROVIDED FOR INMATES, THE MULTI-MILLION- DOLLAR LAUNDRY, HOSPITALS, KITCHENS AND WORKSHOPS.
MR SHIKITA WAS VERY IMPRESSED WITH THE NEWLY-BUILT LAUNDRY AT PIK UK PRISON, WHICH INCORPORATES AN EFFLUENT TREATMENT PLANT, THROUGH WHICH DIRTY WATER DERIVED FROM THE WASHING PROCESS IS FILTERED AND PURIFIED BEFORE DISPOSAL.
PRIOR TO VISITING PIK UK PRISON, MR SHIKITA WAS SHOWN AROUND PIK UK CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTION, A MULTI-FUNCTIONAL MAXIMUM SECURITY PENAL INSTITUTION WITH FACILITIES FOR A RECEPTION CENTRE, A TRAINING CENTRE AND A PRISON FOR YOUNG OFFENDERS.
IN THE EVENING, MR SHIKITA HAD DINNER WITH SENIOR OFFICERS AT THE OFFICERS' CLUB IN STANLEY IN WHICH THE CONSUL-GENERAL OF JAPAN, MR CHUSEI YAMADA ALSO ATTENDED.
TOMORROW MR SHIKITA WILL BE VISITING THE STAFF TRAINING INSTITUTE AND THE STANLEY PRISON BEFORE LEAVING HONG KONG FOR BANGKOK AT NOON.
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