WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1994
DSD LOOKING INTO OVERFLOWING OF DRAINAGE CHANNEL
THE
*
DRAINAGE SERVICES
DEPARTMENT
AN
EXTERNAL OF A DRAINAGE
WILL HIRE INSTITUTION TO ASSIST IN LOOKING INTO THE OVERFLOWING CHANNEL IN TAN KWAI TSUEN, YUEN LONG DURING THE RECENT HEAVY RAINS.
SERVICES, DRAINAGE
MR NG KWAI TSUEN
THIS WAS STATED BY THE DIRECTOR OF YEE-YUM, WHEN HE MET REPRESENTATIVES OF VILLAGERS FROM TAN AND WO PING SAN TSUEN TODAY (WEDNESDAY).
TOLD
NG MR
THAT
OVERFLOWING
OF
THE
THE REPRESENTATIVES DRAINAGE CHANNEL HAD CAUSED FLOODINGS IN THEIR VILLAGES.
SAID NOTING THAT HE APPRECIATED THE VILLAGERS' CONCERNS, MR NG
CATCHMENT HAD LED IT APPEARED THAT SPECIAL FEATURES OF THE DRAINAGE TO THE EXTREMELY HIGH FLOW RATE RECORDED IN THE DRAINAGE CHANNEL.
THE REQUESTS OF
IN THE MEANTIME, MR NG ADDED, IN RESPONSE TO LOCAL RESIDENTS, A LOCAL FLOOD WARNING SYSTEM WOULD BE INSTALLED.
THAT
HIS DEPARTMENT WAS ALSO
MEASURES TO
THE IMPROVE
HE FURTHER POINTED OUT IMPLEMENTING A NUMBER OF URGENT SHORT TERM DRAINAGE SITUATION OF THE AREA.
STORAGE BUFFER THE CATCHMENT AND RAISING THE MR NG SAID.
"THE MEASURES INCLUDE THE PROVISION OF A FLOOD IN AN ABANDONED RESERVOIR AT THE UPSTREAM AREA OF INCREASING THE INLET CAPACITY OF THE DRAINAGE CHANNEL BY CHANNEL WALLS ALONG THE UPSTREAM PORTION OF THE CHANNEL,
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APPLICATIONS FOR EMPLOYMENT IN HONG KONG
THE TODAY (WEDNESDAY) ANNOUNCED DEPARTMENT THE IMMIGRATION
OF APPLICATIONS FOR ENTRY OF RESULTS OF THE SECOND BALLOT EXERCISE PROFESSIONALS AND MANAGERS FROM CHINA FOR EMPLOYMENT IN HONG KONG.
OF 2,683 APPLICATIONS "UP TO THE END OF AUGUST 1994, A TOTAL WERE RECEIVED," A SPOKESMAN FOR THE IMMIGRATION DEPARTMENT SAID.
MORE THAN HALF OF
THE
AND
FINANCE
APPLICATIONS SECTORS
FROM THE CAME AND JOBS AS CONSTRUCTION ADMINISTRATORS AND MARKETING EXECUTIVES WERE MOST POPULAR.
TRADING, ENGINEERS,
IN A BALLOT EXERCISE HELD TODAY, 250 APPLICATIONS WERE RANDOMLY SELECTED BY COMPUTER FROM THE APPLICATIONS RECEIVED.
"SUCCESSFUL
WILL EMPLOYERS
BE NOTIFIED
IN
WRITING
11
INDIVIDUALLY, THE SPOKESMAN SAID.
"UNSUCCESSFUL
IN APPLLICATIONS
WILL EXERCISE BALLOT
ΤΟ BE HELD IN CONTINUE TO REMAIN ELIGIBLE FOR SUBSEQUENT EXERCISES DECEMBER 1994 AND MARCH 1995.
THE
/"EMPLOYERS SHOULD