SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1984
6
TABLE 3 CHANGES COMPARING NOVEMBER 1983 WITH NOVEMBER 1982
OF RE-EXPORTS BY END-USE CATEGORY
END-USE CATEGORY
RE-EXPORT VALUE
RE-EXPORT
RE-EXPORT
UNIT VALUE
VOLUME
FOODSTUFFS
+35%
+22%
+11%
CONSUMER GOODS
+37%
+15%
+19%
RAW MATERIALS AND
SEMI-MANUFACTURES
+54%
+16%
+32%
FUELS
+40%
+19%
+17%
CAPITAL GOODS
+57%
+16%
+36%
ALL COMMODITIES
+46%
+16%
+25%
PUBLIC URGED TO TAKE FIRE PRECAUTIONS
***
FIRE RISKS ARE HIGH IN MANY OF HONG KONG'S OLD TENEMENT BUILDINGS, PARTICULARLY THOSE STILL EQUIPPED WITH OLD FIRE SAFETY MEASURES.
+THESE BUILDINGS MAY THUS RECEIVE GREATER DAMAGE IN CASE OF FIRE, MR TAM YUK-FAN, SENIOR DIVISIONAL OFFICER (KOWLOON WEST) OF THE FIRE SERVICES DEPARTMENT WARNED TODAY.
AS AN EXAMPLE, HE CITED AN EIGHT-STOREY RESIDENTIAL BLOCK IN MONG KOK WHERE A FIRE BROKE OUT ON DECEMBER 8, KILLING FOUR PEOPLE AND INJURING 11 OTHERS.
+THE HIGH CASUALTY FIGURE WAS DUE TO THE RAPID SPREAD OF THE FIRE AND SMOKE, MR TAM, WHO DIRECTED THE RESCUE OPERATION, POINTED OUT.
INFLAMMABLE WOODEN PARTITIONS IN THE BUILDING AND THE BLOCKAGE OF ESCAPE ROUTES AGGRAVATED THE SITUATION, HE RECALLED.
MR TAM SAID THIS FIRE UNDERLINED THE IMPORTANCE OF HAVING EFFICIENT SAFETY PRECAUTIONS IN MULTI-STOREY DOMESTIC BUILDINGS.
THE SENIOR DIVISIONAL OFFICER OF THE FIRE PROTECTION BUREAU, MR CHOW WING-CHEONG, IN A SEPARATE WARNING STRESSED THAT SMOKE LOBBY DOORS MUST REMAIN CLOSED AND ESCAPE ROUTES CLEARED OF OBSTRUCTIONS.
/+ANY PERSON