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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1984
POPULATION PROJECTION REVISED
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THE 1981-BASED POPULATION PROJECTION FOR HONG KONG HAS BEEN REVISED.
THE NEW PROJECTION, RE-BASED TO MID 1983, HAS BEEN PREPARED WITH A REVISED IMMIGRATION ASSUMPTION.
NO CHANGES WERE MADE TO THE FERTILITY AND MORTALITY ASSUMPTIONS, A SPOKESMAN FOR THE CENSUS AND STATISTICS DEPARTMENT SAID TODAY.
THE RESULTS ARE SUMMARISED IN A BOOKLET ENTITLED +HONG KONG POPULATION A 20-YEAR PROJECTION (REVISED EDITION - NOVEMBER 1984)+ ON SALE AT THE GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS CENTRE, GENERAL POST OFF ICE BUILDING, CONNAUGHT PLACE, HONG KONG.
SHEK WU HUI SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS OPENED
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SHEK WU HUI SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS, ANOTHER OF THE MANY FACILITIES VITAL TO THE GROWTH OF FANLING NEW TOWN, WAS OPENED TODAY BY UNOFFICIAL MEMBER OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL, MR CHEUNG YAN-LUNG.
BUILT AT A COST OF ABOUT $160 MILLION, THE NEW WORKS CAPABLE OF PROVIDING FULL TREATMENT OF DOMESTIC SEWAGE AND INDUSTRIAL WASTE GENERATED BY THE RAPID DEVELOPMENT OF THE NEW TOWN AND ITS ADJACENT AREAS.
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SPEAKING AT THE OPENING CEREMONY, MR CHEUNG SAID THE NEW WORKS WOULD ENABLE OLD SEWERS TO BE CONNECTED TO A PROPERLY DESIGNED SEWAGE COLLECTION AND TREATMENT SYSTEM.
+LOOKING AROUND ONE BEGINS TO NOTICE THE EMERGENCE OF FACILITIES OF ALL KINDS, CATERING NOT ONLY TO LOCAL NEEDS BUT ALSO TO THE LARGER AND MORE COMPREHENSIVE DISTRICT REQUIREMENTS.+
MR CHEUNG SAID THAT OVER THE YEARS HE HAD WATCHED WITH INTEREST THE GROWTH OF THE NORTH DISTRICT AND FANLING NEW TOWN ITSELF AND FELT THAT THE INDIVIDUAL HAD NOT BEEN FORGOTTEN OR NEGLECTED.
THE EXCELLENT TRANSPORT LINKS, LIKE THE ELECTRIFIED RAILWAY SYSTEM AND THE DUAL THREE-LANE NEW TERRITORIES CIRCULAR ROAD, WOULD RESULT IN GREATLY IMPROVED ACCESSIBILITY BETWEEN THE ONCE-RURAL HINTERLAND AND THE URBAN CENTRES OF KOWLOON AND HONG KONG ON THE ONE HAND AND CHINA ON THE OTHER.
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