WEDNESDAY, MAY 4, 1994
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"SCHOOLS THEN ASSESS THE CHILDREN'S ACADEMIC PLACING THEM TO CLASSES AT SUITABLE LEVELS," HE ADDED.
STANDARD BEFORE
OFFICES SHOWED
FEEDBACKS OBTAINED BY THE DISTRICT EDUCATION THAT, APART FROM THEIR STANDARD OF ENGLISH, MOST IMMIGRANT CHILDREN DO NOT ENCOUNTER SERIOUS LEARNING OR ADJUSTMENT DIFFICULTIES.
ARE
CLASSES
SCHOOLS PROBLEM,
WHILE THE
EDUCATION
TO HELP THEM TACKLE THE LANGUAGE
ORGANISE COUNSELLING
TO ENCOURAGED DEPARTMENT ALSO RUNS SPECIAL CLASSES.
"FOR
HAVE SPECIAL ADJUSTMENT GUIDANCE
CHILDREN WHO IMMIGRANT THOSE PROBLEMS, THEY ARE GIVEN COUNSELLING AND GUIDANCE BY STUDENT
MR LAM SAID. OFFICERS OR SCHOOL WORKERS,
USE OF PAVING BLOCKS WILL NOT LEAD TO RAT PROBLEM
NOTHING FROM THE AVAILABLE TECHNICAL EVIDENCE SUGGESTS THAT THE MANY COUNTRIES, USE OF PAVING BLOCK CONSTRUCTION, WHICH IS USED IN
JAMES BLAKE, WILL LEAD TO RAT PROBLEMS, THE SECRETARY FOR WORKS, MR SAID TODAY (WEDNESDAY).
KUI-CHUN IN THE
REPLYING TO A QUESTION FROM DR THE HON LAM LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL, MR BLAKE SAID GIVEN THE EXTENSIVE USE OF BLOCK PAVEMENTS IN HONG KONG AND THE FEW INSTANCES OF POSSIBLE DAMAGE DUE TO IT WAS CLEARLY NOT A SERIOUS THE ACTIVITIES OF BURROWING BY RATS, PROBLEM.
SUSPECTED THE PAST TWO
THERE WERE FOUR CASES OF PEDESTRIAN PAVEMENT DAMAGE TO HAVE BEEN CAUSED BY THE ACTIVITIES OF RATS DURING YEARS.
ONLY ONE OF THESE RELATED TO RATS BURROWING INTO THE SAND LAYER то HAVE BREN BENEATH THE PAVEMENT BLOCKS, THE OTHERS ARE BELIEVED CAUSED BY RATS UNDERMINING THE DEEPER UNDERLYING SOIL STRATA.
TO BELIEVE THAT ANY MR BLAKE SAID AS THERE WAS NO REASON
USE OF RELATIONSHIP EXISTED BETWEEN THE ACTIVITIES OF RATS AND THE
THE REGIONAL PAVING BLOCK, THE URBAN SERVICES DEPARTMENT (USD) AND SERVICES DEPARTMENT (RSD) WERE THEREFORE NOT CONSULTED BY THE HIGHWAYS THEIR DEPARTMENT WHEN DECIDING TO ADOPT BLOCK PAVEMENTS ON ACCOUNT OF OTHER VERY IMPORTANT BENEFITS.
TO BURROW USING TRADITIONAL
HE SAID THERE SHOULD BE VERY LITTLE CHANCE FOR RATS FOR PAVEMENTS WHICH WERE PROPERLY LAID, WHETHER BY IN SITU CONCRETE OR BY USING CONCRETE BLOCKS AND WITH CONCRETE STRIPS.
EDGING
DAMAGE TO
THE
THAT POSSIBILITY THERE IS HOWEVER ALWAYS THE PAVED SURFACE, WHICH COULD BE CAUSED BY THE WHEEL LOADING OF ILLEGALLY PARKED VEHICLES FOR EXAMPLE, OR ANY DAMAGE CAUSING AN OPENING VICINITY OF THE PAVEMENT MIGHT RESULT IN RATS REACHING THE BEDDING LAYER AND STARTS BURROWING ACTIVITIES, MR BLAKE SAID,
IN THE UNDERLYING
"THE HIGHWAYS