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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1, 1988
"BORDER
OPENING HOURS JOINT WORKING
REGULARLY BY A SHENZHEN OFFICIALS.
TRAFFIC
PROBLEMS
ARE REVIEWED OF HONG KONG AND
AND GROUP CONSISTING
AT "ALTHOUGH THERE ARE NO PLANS TO INTRODUCE A 24-HOUR SERVICE
ADJUSTMENTS ARE MADE AS POINT, THE MAN KAM
CROSSING TO BORDER
HE SAID. NECESSARY, WITH THE AGREEMENT OF BOTH SIDES,
"THE MAN KAM TO TERMINAL WAS FIRST SET UP THE OPENING HOURS WERE FROM 7.30 AM TO 6 PM.
EXTENDED
IN JULY 1980 WHEN
TO 8 PM ON OCTOBER 1, "THE CLOSING TIME WAS BECAUSE OF THE HEAVY TRAFFIC THROUGH THE CROSSING POINT.
1984
ON
AND 2.481 PASSENGERS "CURRENTLY AN AVERAGE OF 8,940 VEHICLES USE THE CROSSING POINT EVERY DAY ALTHOUGH BOTH FIGURES ARE GREATER PEAK DAYS.'
THE
NOT CONSTANT THROUGHOUT MR BARNES NOTED THAT THE TRAFFIC WAS
IN THE DAY AND THERE WERE IDENTIFIABLE PEAKS IN THE MORNINGS AND AFTERNOONS, ADDING THAT TRAFFIC WAS USUALLY LIGHT AFTER 7 PM.
AT THE CROSSING POINT "INEVITABLY THERE ARE SOME DELAYS
* AS IT WAS IN PEAK HOURS, BUT CONGESTION IS NOT NOW AS SERIOUS AUTUMN OF LAST YEAR.
AT THE
"THE SITUATION AT MAN KAM TO WILL BE
KEPT
UNDER REVIEW, HE
ADDED.
SOCIAL WORKER SHORTAGE UNDER STUDY
BY
SECRETARY FOR
LEGISLATIVE
THE ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON SOCIAL WORK TRAINING IS CONSULTED THE DIRECTOR OF SOCIAL WELFARE ON ALL ASPECTS OF SOCIAL WORK TRAINING, BUT IS NOT ITSELF RESPONSIBLE FOR MANPOWER POLICY, THE
THE HON JOHN CHAMBERS, SAID IN THE HEALTH AND WELFARE, COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY).
HON
HUI
CHAMBERS PLANS
REPLYING TO A QUESTION BY THE
MR YIN-FAT, SAID: "THE RESPONSIBILITY FOR FORMULATING MANPOWER POLICIES AND RESTS WITH THE DIRECTOR OF SOCIAL WELFARE AND MYSELF."
THE
THE EXTENT OF
*THE
AND
TRAINED SOCIAL WORKERS, HE SAID AS TO THE SHORTAGE OF DIRECTOR OF SOCIAL WELFARE HAD RECENTLY ASSESSED SHORTAGE AND WAS CONSIDERING THE INTRODUCTION OF A NUMBER OF LONG SHORT-TERM MEASURES TO ALLEVIATE THE PROBLEM.
"THE ADVISORY