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FRIDAY, MARCH 31, 1989
ΤΟ
SUCH GOODS, ACCORDING TO MR YEUNG, MIGHT BE LIABLE FOR RETURN
KONG IF THE UK LABORATORY
HONG UNSATISFACTORY.
RESULTS TEST
PROVED
TO
BE
"THE ONUS IS NOW ON OUR MANUFACTURERS TO USE HOKLAS ACCREDITED LABORATORIES AND FOR THOSE LABORATORIES TO PROVIDE RELIABLE TEST
BE ACCEPTED ON RESULTS WHICH WILL
FACE VALUE BY NAMAS, LABORATORY TESTING AUTHORITY, HE SAID.
"
UK'S
THERE ARE 20
HOKLAS WAS LAUNCHED IN MAY 1985. AT PRESENT, ACCREDITED LOCAL LABORATORIES, PERFORMING A WIDE RANGE OF TESTING.
THE ACCORDING TO
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR (QUALITY SERVICES) OF
YEAR THE NUMBER INDUSTRY, MR ERNEST EVANS, BY THIS TIME NEXT
OF ACCREDITED LABORATORIES IN THE TERRITORY SHOULD BE OVER 30.
ONLY AFTER HE EMPHASISED THAT LABORATORIES WERE ACCREDITED
ASSESSMENT PROCESS, METICULOUS
WERE LABORATORIES THAT
UNABLE COMPLY WITH HOKLAS CRITERIA WERE NOT ACCREDITED.
SUBSEQUENTLY
A то
ΤΟ FAILED
MEET
AND THOSE THAT WERE ACCREDITED THEIR OBLIGATIONS WERE SUSPENDED FROM THE SCHEME, HE ADDED.
MR EVANS SAID HE WAS CONFIDENT THAT HONG KONG NOW HAD AVAILABLE
SERVICE QUALITY A MATURE
ON OVERALL COMPETENCE AND THE INTEGRITY OF TESTING.
BUILT
UK
BESIDES MR YEUNG, OTHER SIGNATORIES OF THE HONG KONG/UNITED KINGDOM BILATERAL AGREEMENT INCLUDED DR PAUL DEAN, DIRECTOR OF THE
LABORATORY, NATIONAL PHYSICAL
WHO REPRESENTED THE UK GOVERNMENT, MR EVANS AND MR JOHN SUMMERFIELD, HEAD OF NAMAS.
GOOD START TO TREE PLANTING SCHEME
PLANTING
PUBLIC RESPONSE TO THIS YEAR'S COMMUNITY TREE HAS BEEN SO OVERWHELMING THAT IN THE EASTER HOLIDAY PERIOD MORE THAN 6,590 PEOPLE PARTICIPATED IN PLANTING 7,690 TREES.
OF THESE PEOPLE, 3,620 WERE IN GROUPS.
ANOTHER 110 GROUPS, TOTALLING 9.000 PEOPLE, REGISTERED WITH THE AGRICULTURE AND FISHERIES DEPARTMENT, TREES IN THE COMING WEEKS.
SCHEME ALONE,
WHO WILL
HAVE PLANT
THE COMMUNITY TREE PLANTING SCHEME IS ORGANISED BY THE AGRICULTURE AND FISHERIES DEPARTMENT FOR THE 32ND CONSECUTIVE YEAR.
THE 1989 SCHEME BEGAN ON MARCH 24 AND TREE PLANTING DAYS WILL BE HELD ON EVERY SUNDAY AND PUBLIC HOLIDAY UNTIL THE END OF APRIL.
COMMENTING ON