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WEDNESDAY, JULY 9, 1986
MINOR UPGRADING WORKS WERE CARRIED OUT SPEEDILY UNDER A BLOCK VOTE FOR +WORKS CONTINGENT ON DEVELOPMENT+.
FOR MAJOR IMPROVEMENT WORKS THERE WAS A 10-YEAR +SEWAGE TREATMENT AND DISPOSAL PROGRAMME+ WHICH INCLUDED ALL PROJECTS FOR THE PROVISION OF TRUNK SEWERAGE AND SEWAGE DISPOSAL.
MR CHAN SAID IMPROVEMENTS TO EXISTING OUTFALLS IN OLDER DISTRICTS SUCH AS TO KWA WAN, KWUN TONG AND WAN CHAI HAD BEEN CARRIED OUT UNDER THIS PROGRAMME, WITH OLD SEA-WALL OUTLETS BEING REPLACED BY UNDERWATER OUTFALLS WHICH CARRIED SEWAGE AWAY FROM THE SHORE LINE TO THE MAIN TIDAL FLOW.
+IN THE PAST FIVE YEARS, SOME 30 KILOMETRES OF NEW SEWERS HAVE BEEN LAID, AND A FURTHER 47 KILOMETRES ARE NOW UNDER PLANNING OR CONSTRUCTION, HE SAID.
A MAJOR NEW SEWAGE OUTFALL, FOR EXAMPLE, WAS PLANNED TO SERVE LAI CHI KOK, TAI KOK TSUI AND SHAM SHUI PO, AND CONSTRUCTION SHOULD START SHORTLY.
THERE WERE 20 SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANTS IN OPERATION, AND 27 MORE WERE UNDER VARIOUS STAGES OF PLANNING AND CONSTRUCTION.
HIGH PRIORITY GIVEN TO SAFETY CAMPAIGN
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THE INDUSTRIAL SAFETY CAMPAIGN HAS BEEN ACCORDED HIGH PRIORITY FOR THE PAST TEN YEARS AND CONTINUES TO BE TREATED AS A MAJOR CAMPAIGN, THE SECRETARY FOR EDUCATION AND MANPOWER, THE HON MICHAEL LEUNG, SAID IN THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY).
REPLYING TO A QUESTION BY THE HON TAM YIU-CHUNG, MR LEUNG SAID ONLY ONE OTHER PUBLICITY CAMPAIGN HAD BEEN ALLOCATED AN AMOUNT EQUAL TO THE $750 000 ALLOCATED TO INDUSTRIAL SAFETY THIS YEAR.
+ IN RECENT YEARS, MOREOVER, WITH ACCUMULATED EXPERIENCE IN ORGANISING PROMOTIONAL ACTIVITIES, THE COST-EFFECTIVENESS OF THE CAMPAIGN HAS BEEN ENHANCED AND THE TARGETTING OF THE PROMOTIONAL EFFORT HAS BEEN IMPROVED, HE SAID.
DEVELOPMENT OF TRIPARTITE PARTICIPATION HAD BEEN ANOTHER IMPORTANT FACTOR.
/+THE LABOUR