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THE LONG TERM SOLUTION WOULD BE TO CLOSE THE FACILITY IN 1992 WHEN THE ISLAND EAST TRANSFER STATION COMMENCED OPERATION.
EXTENSIVE IMPROVEMENT MEASURES WOULD BE IMPLEMENTED AT THE KENNEDY TOWN ABATTOIR IN THE COMING YEAR. THESE INCLUDED IMPROVEMENTS TO THE DRAINAGE CONNECTIONS, INSTALLATION OF ADDITIONAL GREASE TRAPS AND ODOUR CONTROL MEASURES FOR THE BY-PRODUCTS PLANT. ACTIONS WERE IN HAND TO RELOCATE THE ANIMAL CREMATOR, SHE SAID.
ON NOISE PROBLEMS IN SCHOOLS, MRS LI SAID UNDER STAGE II OF THE SCHOOL NOISE ABATEMENT PROGRAMME, EPD HAD COMPLETED ON-SITE NOISE MEASUREMENT FOR 20 SCHOOLS IN THE DISTRICT.
A LIST OF THOSE ELIGIBLE FOR INSULATION TREATMENT BY 1990 WOULD BE SUBMITTED FOR FUNDING APPROVAL BY THE END OF THIS YEAR.
HAD
ON THE DISTRICT'S WATER POLLUTION PROBLEM, MRS LI SAID EPD COMMISSIONED A CONSULTANCY STUDY IN AUGUST THIS YEAR TO DRAW UP THE CENTRAL, WESTERN AND WAN CHAI WEST SEWERAGE MASTERPLAN STUDY.
PACKAGES OF SEWERAGE IMPROVEMENT AND EXTENSION BE DEVELOPED TO CURB FURTHER DETERIORATION IN WATER DISTRICT, SHE ADDED.
PROJECTS WOULD QUALITY IN THE
CONSUMER PRICE INDEXES FOR OCTOBER PUBLISHED
*
*
THE CPL(A) FOR OCTOBER HIGHER THAN THAT FOR OCTOBER 1988
BY THE INDEXES PUBLISHED
THURSDAY).
1989. AT
WAS 132.6.
10.4 PER CENT
ΤΟ ACCORDING
THE CONSUMER PRICE CENSUS AND STATISTICS DEPARTMENT TODAY
HOWEVER, IT SHOULD BE NOTED THAT OCTOBER 1988 WAS RELATIVELY LOW.
THE BASE OF COMPARISON IN
A WITH
COMPARED
YEAR EARLIER, THE CPI(A) WAS HIGHER
10.1 PER CENT IN 10.3 PER CENT IN JULY. 9.9 PER CENT IN AUGUST AND SEPTEMBER 1989.
BY
THE
IN WHILE THESE RATES OF INCREASE
CONSUMER PRICES FLUCTUATED WITHIN A NARROW MARGIN OVER THE PAST FOUR MONTHS, THEY WERE BELOW CORRESPONDING RATE OF INCREASE OF 11.0 PER CENT RECORDED IN JUNE.
OCTOBER 1989, OCTOBER
THE CPI(R) SHOWED LARGELY SIMILAR MOVEMENTS. IN
OVER REPRESENTING AN INCREASE OF 10.1 PER CENT IT WAS 132.1 LAST YEAR.
·
THIS COMPARED WITH INCREASES OF 10.0 PER CENT IN JULY, 9.7 CENT IN AUGUST. AND 9.9 PER CENT IN SEPTEMBER 1989.
PER
/COMPARING OCTOBER