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FRIDAY, JANUARY 12, 1990
RATES ARE PAYABLE
ON VACANT
PROPERTIES
BUT ARE
REFUNDABLE
UNDER THE CONDITIONS SPECIFIED IN SECTION 30 OF THE ORDINANCE.
REFUNDS WILL BE UNDER SECTIONS 30 (1A) AND (2A), HOWEVER, NO
TO BE PAYABLE IN THE CASE OF A VACANT TENEMENT LAST USED OR INTENDED
DOMESTIC PURPOSES OR FOR USED WHOLLY OR PRIMARILY FOR VEHICLES (UNLESS VACANT BY REASON OF AN ORDER OF THE GOVERNMENT).
INCONVENIENCE
PARKING
OF
RATEPAYERS
QUEUEING,
POST OR BY EARLY BACK OF THE
OF TO AVOID THE POSSIBLE ARE URGED TO PAY BY CHEQUE OR MONEY ORDER SENT BY PERSONAL ATTENDANCE AT ANY OF THE OFFICES LISTED ON THE DEMAND NOTE.
0
ACAF MEMBERS VISIT CHEUNG PO, TAI LUNG FARM
FISHERIES AND THE
FOR
SEE
MEMBERS OF THE ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE AND
VISITED CHEUNG PO IN YUEN LONG THIS (FRIDAY) AFTERNOON GOVERNMENT'S TAI LUNG EXPERIMENTAL STATION IN SHEUNG SHUI TO THEMSELVES THE PROGRESS OF THE AGRICULTURAL LAND REHABILITATION SCHEME AND THE INTRODUCTION OF EXOTIC VEGETABLES FOR LOCAL PRODUCTION.
ACCOMPANIED
STAFF
OF THE
BY
AND AGRICULTURE
CHEUNG PO WHICH, DEPARTMENT (AFD), THE PARTY FIRST VISTED WITH HOK TAU IN SHEUNG SHUI, WAS SELECTED FOR IMPLEMENTING AGRICULTURAL LAND REHABILITATION SCHEME IN MID-1988.
FISHERIES TOGETHER THE PILOT
OF ARABLE LAND
THE SCHEME IS AIMED AT ENCOURAGING ACTIVE USE AND ASSISTING DISPLACED OR POTENTIAL FARMERS TO OBTAIN LAND FARMING.
FOR CROF
PROGRESS MEMBERS LEARNT THAT THE SCHEME HAD BEEN MAKING STEADY
TOTAL ARBA OF 8.7 DESPITE VARIOUS INHERENT PROBLEMS. ALTOGETHER, A
AND HOK TAU HAD BEEN HECTARES OF FALLOW, ARABLE LAND IN CHEUNG PO BROUGHT BACK TO VEGETABLE AND FLOWER CULTIVATION, SO FAR.
VEGETABLE
EXPERIMENTAL STATION THE PARTY THEN PROCEEDED TO THE TAI LUNG
PROGRAMME AFD'S
ΤΟ ENCOURAGE LOCAL WHERE THEY WERE BRIEFED ON THE
BY SPECIES
A NEWLY DEVELOPED FARMERS то GROW EXOTIC
TOLD THAT TECHNIQUE THE MASS SEEDLING PRODUCTION SYSTEM. THEY WERE BUYERS' INITIAL RESPONSE TO THE PROGRAMME HAD BEEN FAVOURABLE.
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EXOTIC
MEMBERS SHOWED KEEN INTEREST IN THE 120 VARIETIES OF 30
THEY WERE PARTICULARLY VEGETABLE SPECIES DEMONSTRATED IN THE FIELD. IMPRESSED BY THE TASTE OF THE SUPER-SWEET CORN,
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