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WEDNESDAY, MAY 3, 1989
SUPPLY
"EXAMPLES INCLUDE TEACHERS. OTHER
CONSIDERED, HE SAID.
LIFE
GUARDS,
OF CLASSES
LETTER SORTING WORKERS
ARE BEING PART-TIME WORKERS
AND
ACCORDING
A
ENTERED CONCERNING THE TOTAL NUMBER OF WOMEN ESTIMATED TO HAVE
ΤΟ THAT
AND CENSUS STATED THE JOB MARKET, MR BRIDGE
13,900 WOMEN STATISTICS DEPARTMENT SURVEY CARRIED OUT IN 1987, ABOUT
THEIR CHILDREN COULD BE TAKEN WOULD BE WILLING TO TAKE UP JOBS IF CARE OF.
"IN THE SUBVENTED SECTOR, THERE WERE SOME 480 CHILDREN WAITING LISTS KEPT BY DAY CRECHES AT THE END OF MARCH 1989.
ON THE
AS
SUITABLE HE SAID.
WAITLISTED CHILDREN "AND THERE WERE ABOUT 4.000 FOR PLACEMENT AT DAY NURSERIES AT THE END OF DECEMBER 1988,"
INFORMATION
HAD NO MR BRIDGE POINTED OUT THAT THE GOVERNMENT ON WAITING LISTS FOR PRIVATE CRECHES AND DAY CARE FACILITIES.
SHW CLARIFIES NAME OF HERBAL MEDICINE
* *
THAT THE HERB WHICH
CHUT,
AND THE
A POLICE REPORT HAD ALREADY ESTABLISHED WAS CONSUMED BY TWO VICTIMS OF A CASE REFERRED, WAS TO YEE NOT KWAI CHOW LUNG DAM CHO, THE SECRETARY FOR HEALTH AND WELFARE, HON CHAU TAK-HAY, TOLD THE LEGISATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY).
THE HON APRIL
IN A STATEMENT RECTIFYING THE ANSWER WHICH HE GAVE TO MIRIAM LAU'S QUESTION ON CHINESE TRADITIONAL HERBAL MEDICINE ON
TO ME AT THAT 19. MR CHAU SAID: "BASED ON THE INFORMATION PROVIDED TIME, I STATED THAT THE HERB CONSUMED BY THE TWO VICTIMS WAS KWAI CHOW LUNG DAM CHO,"
HAD ALREADY MEDICINAL
THAT THE HERB
BEEN
"I WAS SUBSEQUENTLY INFORMED THAT A POLICE REPORT ESTABLISHED. FOLLOWING AN ANALYSIS CONDUCTED AT THE CHINESE MATERIAL RESEARCH CENTRE AT THE CHINESE UNIVERSITY, CONSUMED WAS TO YEE CHUT (PODOPHYLLUM EMODI} WHICH HAD AND SOLD AS KWAI CHOW LUNG DAM CHO ON THE BASIS OF INVOICES SUPPLIER," HE SAID.
IMPORTED FROM THE
THERE WAS AN
OVERDOSE
MR CHAU ADDED THAT HIS STATEMENT THAT WAS CORRECT AND WAS SUBSTANTIATED BY THE POLICE REPORT.
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