WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20, 1994
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MORE PRIVATELY-RUN ICE SKATING RINKS IN THE PIPELINE
PUBLIC HONG
THERE IS NO SITE EARMARKED FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF ANY ICE-SKATING RINK AT PRESENT IN VIEW OF THE PRIORITIES SET BY THE KONG PLANNING STANDARDS AND GUIDELINES AND THE EXISTENCE OF PRIVATELY- RUN RINKS, THE SECRETARY FOR RECREATION AND CULTURE, MR JAMES SO, TOLD THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY).
KONG,
IN A WRITTEN REPLY TO A QUESTION BY THE HON TIMOTHY HA WING-HO, MR SO SAID THERE WERE FOUR PRIVATELY-RUN SKATING RINKS IN HONG CATERING FOR SOME 6,500 ACTIVE SKATERS AND OTHER CASUAL USERS.
IN
EXPECTED
TWO MORE PRIVATELY-RUN RINKS ARE EXPECTED TO COME ON STREAM TWO MONTHS' TIME WHILE ANOTHER RINK OF INTERNATIONAL SIZE IS TO BE READY BY DECEMBER 1996.
"THE PRIVATELY-RUN ICE-SKATING RINKS ARE CONSIDERED ADEQUATE TO MR MEET THE NEEDS OF THOSE PERSONS INTERESTED IN TAKING UP SKATING, SO SAID.
"THERE IS NO INDICATION THAT THE DEVELOPMENT OF THIS SPORT
HE SAID. BEEN IMPEDED BY THE LACK OF A PUBLIC SKATING RINKS,"
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MR SO ALSO NOTED THAT THE ARENA OF THE HONG KONG COLISEUM CAPABLE OF BEING TRANSFORMED INTO A SUITABLE SURFACE FOR ICE-SKATING,
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ACQUITTED DEFENDANT OFFERED EX GRATIA PAYMENT
WHO
DEFENDANT THE GOVERNMENT HAS OFFERED AN EX GRATIA PAYMENT TO A
FOR AN
HE WHICH TRIED
OFFENCE OF
BEEN PREVIOUSLY WAS
HAD ACQUITTED, THE ATTORNEY GENERAL, THE HON JEREMY MATHEWS, SAID LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY).
IN THE
EMILY LAU,
IN A WRITTEN REPLY TO A QUESTION RAISED BY THE HON MR MATHEWS SAID THE MAN HAD BEEN INVITED TO PROVIDE DETAILS AS TO PERSONAL CIRCUMSTANCES AND TO MAKE SUCH REPRESENTATIONS AS HE THE GOVERNMENT TO CONSIDER BEFORE THE AMOUNT OF THE EX GRATIA WAS DETERMINED.
SAID THERE WERE
HIS
WISHED PAYMENT
THE ATTORNEY GENERAL
SEVERAL FACTORS THAT CONTRIBUTED TO THE ERROR AND AN INTERNAL BOARD OF INQUIRY APPOINTED BY HIM TO INVESTIGATE THE CASE HAD MADE SEVERAL RECOMMENDATIONS TO PREVENT ANY RECURRENCE OF THE PROBLEM.
DESIGNED
RECOMMENDATIONS
HE SAID THAT HE HAD ACCEPTED THE FINDINGS AND OF THE BOARD, AND THE LEGAL DEPARTMENT WAS WORKING IN LIAISON WITH THE JUDICIARY TO IMPLEMENT THE RECOMMENDATIONS.
CONCERNED, MR
PROPERLY ADVISED
AS FAR AS CONDUCT IN THE LEGAL DEPARTMENT WAS MATHEWS SAID
BE THE BOARD CONCLUDED THAT FAULT COULD ONLY ATTRIBUTED TO ONE PERSON, NAMELY THE OFFICER WHO SHOULD HAVE THE COURT PROSECUTOR HANDLING THE RETRIAL.
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