FRIDAY, JUNE 21, 1991

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ANY PERSON WHO WISHES TO OBJECT TO THE WORKS SHOULD WRITE что THE SECRETARY FOR TRANSPORT, CENTRAL GOVERNMENT OFFICES, EAST WING, SECOND FLOOR, LOWER ALBERT ROAD, HONG KONG NOT LATER THAN AUGUST 20 THIS YEAR.

HE SHOULD DESCRIBE HIS INTEREST AND THE MANNER I.N WHICH HE ALLEGES HE WILL BR AFFECTED BY THE WORKS OR THE USE.

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NO SIGNIFICANT POLLUTION DONE BY DUCK AND GOOSE FARMS

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FARMS DO NOT AND THEREFORE IT FOR ANY LIVESTOCK

THE GOVERNMENT IS SATISFIED THAT GOOSE AND DUCK NORMALLY CAUSE SIGNIFICANT ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS, FEELS THAT GOOSE AND DUCK FARMERS NEED NOT KEEPING LICENCES.

APPLY

SINCE SUCH FARMS DO NOT CAUSE SIGNIFICANT ENVIRONMENTAL DAMAGE, OF ANY EX-GRATIA ALLOWANCE THEY SHOULD NOT BE ELIGIBLE FOR PAYMENT OR CAPITAL GRANT PAID TO ASSIST FARMERS WHO NERD TO INSTALL WASTE CONTROL SYSTEM.

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION A SPOKESMAN FOR THE STRESSED THAT THERE WOULD BE NO PROSECUTION OF SUCH AS THEY CONTINUED TO USE EXISTING OPERATING CAUSE ANY SIGNIFICANT ENVIRONMENTAL DAMAGE.

LIVESTOCK

DEPARTMENT FARMERS SO LONG

WHICH METHODS,

DID NOT

HAD

SAID: "THERE SIGNIFICANT POLLUTION

MEANWHILE, A GOVERNMENT SPOKESMAN TODAY (FRIDAY) 18 NO EVIDENCE THAT GOOSE AND DUCK FARMS CAUSE TO HONG KONG'S RIVERS AND STREAMS.

ARE OPERATED

ON ENCLOSED

PONDS

"THE MAJORITY OF SUCH FARMS WHICH ARE BASICALLY ZERO EFFLUENT DISCHARGE SYSTEMS.

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A FREE-RANGE SOME OPERATE ON PRODUCE SOME EFFLUENT, THIS SEVERE.

IS

BASIS ON NOT CONSIDERED

WHILE

THESE

LAND: ΤΟ BR UNACCEPTABLY

OR

ΤΟ

FARMERS

GO OUT OF WISH DUCK "WHERE GOOSE HE SAID:

IN PROBLEMS

THE INDUSTRY UNCONNECTED BUSINESS BECAUSE OF BCONOMIC WETH INSTALLATION OF LIVESTOCK WASTE CONTROL SYSTEMS, THEY SHOULD

FROM THE LIVESTOCK WASTE CONTROL ASSISTANCE BE ELIGIBLE FOR CASH

FOR LEGISLATION

THIS SORT OF THE SCHEME, WHICH WAS NOT AGREED BY SITUATION."

(THURSDAY), YESTERDAY GOVERNMENT AT A MEETING WITH THE FARMER REPRESENTATIVES EXPRESSED CONCERN LIABLE TO PROSECUTION, DESPITE

THE

THAT THEY MIGHT STILL

FROM INDICATION

THE GOVERNMENT

DUCK BE

THAT PROSECUTIONS WOULD NOT BE UNDERTAKEN.

THEY ALSO SAID DUCK AND GOOSE

PROBLEMS ANYHOW AND

LIKE SHOULD,

KEEPING WOULD CAUSE POLLUTION

CHICKEN PIG AND

KEEPING, BE то CAPITAL ANY FARM WENT OUT OF

CONTROLLED UNDER THE NEW LICENSING SCHEME AND BE ENTITLED

ALLOWANCE EX-GRATIA

GRANT, OR TO

BUSINESS.

WHENEVER

/THE GOVERNMENT

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