WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1988
10
DISTRICT BOARD MEETING COSTS PUT AT $27,000
THE ADMINISTRATIVE
BOARD
AND STAFF COSTS INVOLVED IN HOLDING
ΤΟ AMOUNT
AN MEETING
ESTIMATED $27,000, DISTRICT LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL WAS TOLD TODAY (WEDNESDAY).
A THE
THE COSTS FOR A DISTRICT BOARD COMMITTEE MEETING AMOUNT ESTIMATED $13,000.
THESE
FIGURES
WERE
GIVEN
BY THE
SECRETARY
FOR ADMINISTRATION, THE HON DONALD LIAO, IN A WRITTEN REPLY TO A FROM THE HON TAI CHIN-WAH.
TO AN
DISTRICT QUESTION
TOOK ABOUT FOUR AND A
MR LIAO SAID THAT ON AVERAGE A
AND HOURS
HALF
MEETING OF A DISTRICT BOARD A DISTRICT BOARD COMMITTEE
MEETING TOOK ABOUT THREE HOURS.
FOR
AND IN THE THE ESTIMATED COSTS WERE CALCULATED ON THIS BASIS LIGHT OF THE AVERAGE STAFFING AND ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPORT PROVIDED THESE MEETINGS, HE EXPLAINED.
299 APPLICATIONS TO BUILD SMALI HOUSES IN NT
* * * *
A TOTAL OF 299 APPLICATIONS FOR LICENCES TO BUILD "SMALL HOUSES" IN THE NEW TERRITORIES HAD BEEN RECEIVED BETWEEN OCTOBER 1 LAST YEAR AND SEPTEMBER 30 THIS YEAR, THE SECRETARY FOR LANDS AND WORKS, THE HON GRAHAM BARNES, INFORMED THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY
(WEDNESDAY).
OF THESE APPLICATIONS, 81 HAD BEEN APPROVED SO FAR, MR BARNES SAID IN A WRITTEN REPLY TO A QUESTION FROM THE HON TAI CHIN-WAH.
MR TAI HAD ASKED HOW MANY APPLICATIONS FOR LICENCES ΤΟ BUILD SMALL HOUSES HAD BEEN RECEIVED SINCE PASSAGE OF THE BUILDINGS ORDINANCE (APPLICATION TO THE NEW TERRITORIES) BILL 1986.
MR BARNES SAID THE LOCALITIES APPLIED FOR WERE TUEN MUN, YUEN LONG AND SAI KUNG,
"AS IT TAKES AT LEAST SIX TO NINE MONTHS To PROCESS AN APPLICATION, MANY OF THOSE SUBMITTED IN THE LATTER PART OF THIS
12-MONTH PERIOD ARE STILL BEING PROCESSED, HE SAID.
-
"DURING THE SAME PERIOD, A TOTAL OF 236 APPROVALS WHICH INCLUDES APPLICATIONS SUBMITTED BEFORE OCTOBER ADDED.
1 +
WERE
ISSUED 1987," HE
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