TUESDAY, APRIL 5, 1994

HOLDING-OUT OCCUPIERS TO BE SERVED NOTICES

THE LANDS DEPARTMENT WILL SERVE NOTICES TOMORROW (WEDNESDAY) ON NOTICE THAT SOME OCCUPIERS OF BUILDINGS IN MA TAU KOK, GIVING THEM THEY SHOULD VACATE THEIR PREMISES BY APRIL 13.

NECESSARY.

BEEN MADE AND THE LIAISON MEETINGS WITH THE PREVENTING

A DEPARTMENT SPOKESMAN SAID THE EVICTION NOTICE WAS DESPITE THE FACT THAT OFFERS OF COMPENSATION HAD DIRECTOR OF LANDS HAD PERSONALLY HELD REGULAR

THEM STAYED PUT, THUS BUSINESS OPERATORS, MANY OF HOUSING SOCIETY'S PROPOSED RE-DEVELOPMENT FROM PROCEEDING.

THERE THE RE-DEVELOPMENT WILL PROVIDE 824 FLATS AT A TIME WHEN

AVAILABLE FOR IS GREAT PRESSURE ON THE GOVERNMENT TO MAKE MORE LAND

SINCE HOUSING. THE PROJECT HAS BEEN POSTPONED SEVERAL TIMES ALREADY THE LAND WAS RESUMED BY THE GOVERNMENT ON OCTOBER 30, 1992.

THE SPOKESMAN SAID THE LANDS

EXPLAIN TO

ΤΟ

UNDER

WERE

THE DEMANDING

BUSINESS CROWN LANDS

MORE

WHICH COMPENSATION

DEPARTMENT HAD DONE EVERYTHING ΤΟ OPERATORS THEIR RIGHTS

ORDINANCE BUT THE RESUMPTION

COULD NOT BE

POSSIBLE COMPENSATION OPERATORS JUSTIFIED.

THE SPOKESMAN EXPLAINED THAT IF CLAIMANTS DID THEIR CASES OFFER, GOVERNMENT'S TRIBUNAL FOR A DECISION.

COULD THEY

REFER

NOT

то

THE

AGREE то LANDS

FOR

MORE LAND,

THE WHO REFUSED TO

19E ADDED THAT IN VIEW OF THE PRESSURE DEPARTMENT HAD TO SERVE NOTICES ON THOSE OCCUPIERS. VACATE THEIR PREMISES, AND IF NECESSARY EVICT THEM, AS THEY SHOULD NOT BE ALLOWED TO STAND IN THE WAY OF RE-DEVELOPMENT TO PROVIDE THE MUCH- NEEDED HOUSING.

SPECIAL ENFORCEMENT CAMPAIGN ON FACTORIES

то

THE LABOUR DEPARTMENT WILL LAUNCH A SPECIAL INSPECTION CAMPAIGN ON FACTORIES TOMORROW (WEDNESDAY) AS PART OF ITS CONTINUED EFFORTS

ENFORCEMENT IMPROVE WORK PLACE SAFETY IN FACTORIES THROUGH STRINGENT ACTIONS AGAINST BLATANT OFFENDERS.

DEPUTY CHIEF FACTORY INSPECTOR OF THE LABOUR DEPARTMENT, MR KAN HON-SANG, SAID TODAY (TUESDAY):

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DECLINE

INDUSTRY FACTORY

IN

THAT

'ALTHOUGH THE ACCIDENT FIGURES FOR THE MANUFACTURING HAVE BEEN ON THE

PAST FEW

THE FOR THE

YEARS. INSPECTORATE'S VIGILANCE ON WORK PLACE SAFETY COULD NOT BE REDUCED IN

BECAUSE THERE WERE STILL. 10 FATAL ACCIDENTS

ANYWAY

INDUSTRIAL SECTOR IN 1993.

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/HE SAID

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