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MONDAY, MARCH 21, 1994
BUDGET SETS FOUNDATION FOR A MORE FROSPEROUS SOCIETY
THE
1994/95 YAU TSIN SOCIETY. (MONDAY) EVENING.
BUDGET DISTRICT
PREPARES THE WAY FOR
OFFICER.
BART MK
A MORE
SAID IRELAND,
PROSPEROUS
THIS
A SINGING CONTEST ORGANISED SPEAKING AT
FIGHT CRIME
MR DISTRICT
CONNISTES,
INCOMF TAX SIGNIFICANT INCREASES IN LOW- AND MIDDLE-INCOME GROUPS.
BY IRELAND EMPHASISED
WOULD ALLOWANCES
THE
YAU TSIM THAT THE BENEFIT THE
SOME 420,000 EXISTING TAXPAYERS WILL THEN PAY NO INCOME TAX AND MORE THAN A MILLION WILL PAY LESS, HE SAID.
HAVE "THESE REAL BENEFITS POR US AND OUR FAMILIES ARE WHAT WE
WF DESERVE EARNED THROUGH OUR HARD WORK AND COMMITMENT TO HONG KONG, THEM.
TURNING TO POLICING, MR [RELAND SAID THE GOVERNMENT HAD PLEDGED AN ADDITIONAL $8.8 BILLION TO THE POLICE IN THE COMING YEAR.
ALREADY THAT
"I AM VERY PLEASED TO SEE THAT THE CRIME FIGURES FOR AMONGST THE LOWEST OF THE PAST DECADE AND I CAN IN THE GOVERNMENT, WILI. DO OUR BEST TO SEE THAT
HE STRESSED.
GEM
CONTINUES,
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1993 WERE ASSURE YOU THIS TREND
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WATER STORAGE FIGURE
STORAGE IN HONG KONG'S RESERVOIRS AT 9 AM TODAY (MONDAY) STOOD AT 67.7 PER CENT OF CAPACITY OR 396.695 MILLION CUBIC METRES.
THIS TIME LAST YEAR THE RESERVOIRS CONTAINED 305.834 MILLION CUBIC METRES OF WATER, REPRESENTING 52.2 PER CENT OF CAPACITY.
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