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TUESDAY, JANUARY 17, 1989
GREY OR GREYISH BROWN IN COLOUR WITH DARK PATCHES AROUND THE EYES, THE ANIMAL HAS A ROUND HEAD, A SMALL TAIL AND A STOUT BODY WITH VERY DENSE FUR CHARACTERISED BY A WIDE DARK BAND IN THE MIDDLE OF ITS BACK.
IT IS A SOLITARY ANIMAL OF NOCTURNAL. HABIT THAT SPENDS THE DAY CURLED IN TREE HOLLOWS AND MOVES MUCH FASTER DURING NIGHT TIME. IT FEEDS ON INSECTS, FRUITS, BIRDS AND BIRD EGGS.
MAINS WATER SUPPLY NOW EXTENDS TO MA WAN
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MAINS WATER SUPPLY TO MA WAN ISLAND, LONG AWAITED BY RESIDENTS, TODAY TUESDAY) BECAME A REALITY FOLLOWING A SYMBOLIC SWITCHING ON CEREMONY PERFORMED BY THE ACTING DIRECTOR OF WATER SUPPLIES, MR CHAN YAN-KEE.
MR CHAN STOOD IN FOR THE DIRECTOR, MR WONG INDISPOSED.
ON HAND TO WITNESS THE EVENT WERE A LARGE PERSONALITIES.
KWOK-LAI, WHO WAS
NUMBER OF DISTRICT
MR CHAN SAID THE CEREMONY MARKED A NOTABLE STEP FORWARD IN THE GOVERNMENT'S EFFORTS TO EXTEND MAINS WATER SUPPLY TO REMOTE AREAS IN THE NEW TERRITORIES.
"THE PROPOSAL TO SUPPLY MAINS WATER ΤΟ MA WAN WAS FIRST CONSIDERED SOME YEARS AGO," HE SAID.
"AT ONE STAGE THIS WAS PROGRAMMED TO BE IMPLEMENTED
CONJUNCTION WITH THE FIXED CROSSING PLANNED FOR NORTH LANTAU.
"FOLLOWING A DECISION IN 1984 ON THE DEFERMENT OF THE CROSSING SCHEME, ALTERNATIVE MEANS OF PROVIDING SUPPLY TO MA WAN EXPLORED, WHICH LATER DEVELOPED INTO PRESENT PROJECT, HE ADDED.
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IN
FIXED
WERE
THE PROJECT COMPRISES SEVEN KILOMETRES OF 200-MILLIMETRE
MA DIAMETER WATER MAIN BETWEEN YAU KOM TAU AND
WAN, LAID IN THREE
SECTIONS.
CASTLE PEAK THIS INCLUDES A FIVE-KILOMETRE LAND SECTION ALONG
SHAM TSENG, FOLLOWED BY ROAD FROM YAU KOM TAU TO
A 1.4-KILOMETRE SUBMARINE SECTION ACROSS MA WAN CHANNEL AND A FURTHER SECTION ON MA WAN LEADING TO THE SERVICE RESERVOIR ON THE ISLAND.
600-METRE LAND
THE SERVICE RESERVOIR HAS A CAPACITY OF 500 CUBIC METRES.
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