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WEDNESDAY MUNE 13, 19-
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HAWKERS CONTRIBUTE $1 BILLION TO ECONOMY
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LAST YEAR HAWKERS CONTRIBUTED ABOUT $1 BILLION TO HONG KONG'S ECONOMY, REPRESENTING ABOUT 0.6 PER CENT OF TOTAL GDP, THE SECRETARY FOR ECONOMIC SERVICES, THE HON PIERS JACOBS, TOLD THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY.
HAWKERS' ACTIVITIES ARE INCLUDED UNDER THE ECONOMIC SECTOR DESCRIBED AS +WHOLESALE AND RETAIL, IMPORT/EXPORT TRADES, RESTAURANTS AND HOTELS+, MR JACOBS SAID, IN REPLY TO A QUESTION FROM THE HON WONG PO-YAŃ.
HE ADDED THAT BECAUSE EARNINGS FROM HAWKERS, PARTICULARLY PART-TIME HAWKERS, WERE DIFFICULT TO MEASURE, THE ESTIMATE MIGHT NOT BE VERY PRECISE.
+ IT IS OBTAINED ON THE BASIS OF INFORMATION ON THE NUMBER OF FULL-TIME HAWKERS AND THE IR AVERAGE EARNINGS GATHERED THROUGH THE CENSUS AND STATISTICS DEPARTMENT'S GENERAL HOUSEHOLD SURVEY.
IN COMPILING THIS ESTIMATE NO DISTINCTION IS MADE BETWEEN LICENSED AND UNLICENSED HAWKERS,+ MR JACOBS EXPLAINED,
IN RECENT YEARS, THE ESTIMATED CONTRIBUTION OF HAWKERS TO THE GDP HAD RISEN IN ABSOLUTE TERMS BUT HAD REMAINED FAIRLY STABLE IN RELATIVE TERMS, HE SAID.
GOVERNMENT RESPONSIBLE FOR ROAD SIGNS
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THE GOVERNMENT'S RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE ERECTION OF ROAD SIGNS INCLUDES SIGNS DIRECTING TRAFFIC TO THE VEHICULAR FERRIES, THE SECRETARY FOR TRANSPORT, THE HON ALAN SCOTT SAID TODAY.
+ THE GENERAL PRACTICE IS THAT SIGNS GIVING DIRECTIONS TO TRUNK ROUTES ARE MORE PROMINENT THAN THOSE GIVING DIRECTIONS TO SECONDARY ROUTES.
+IN THIS CONTEXT THE CROSS-HARBOUR TUNNEL FORMS PART OF ROUTE THE MAJOR TRUNK ROUTE LINKING HONG KONG ISLAND WITH KOWLOON, WHEREAS THE VEHICULAR FERRY ROUTES ARE NOT SECTIONS OF TRUNK ROUTES, + HE SAID, REPLYING TO A QUESTION BY THE HON K.C. CHAN.
THE SIGNS TO THE FERRIES, HE SAID, ARE LOCATED ON DISTRICT DISTRIBUTOR ROADS LEADING TO THE FERRY TERMINALS, ON THE ASSUMPTION THAT MOTORISTS WILL KNOW BROADLY IN WHICH DISTRICTS THE FERRY TERMINALS ARE LOCATED.
/+THUS NEITHER