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Airmail will be delayed by Kansai quake
Owing to the substantial damage caused by the devastating earthquake in the Kansai area of Japan on January 17, airmail and Speedpost items destined to areas with postal codes starting with 52 to 79 and 91 in Japan will be subject to delay, the Postmaster General, Mr Mike Pagliari, announced today (Friday).
These areas cover Osaka, Kyoto, Shiga, Nara, Wakayama, Hyogo (including Kobe), Tottori, Shimane, Okayama, Hiroshima, Yamaguchi, Kagawa, Tokushima, Kochi, Ehime and Fukui Prefectures.
said.
A further announcement will be made when the situation returns to normal, he
End/Friday, January 20, 1995
Safety first in removal of dangerous signs
Signs should be attached to buildings only with professional help and they should be properly maintained by their owners to prevent them from becoming a potential danger or a nuisance to residents and the public.
The advice came today (Friday) from a Buildings Department spokesman during an operation to remove a number of abandoned signs in Sham Shui Po.
The operation followed inspections of about 7,850 signs in the district where Buildings Department staff found 390 signs to be potentially dangerous.
Two hundred and ten of them have since been rectified by the owners before being served Removal Notices by the Building Authority.
The rest will be removed by the Buildings Department and the cost of removal will be recovered from the owners.
later.
The spokesman said similar inspections would be carried out in other districts
"But we need the assistance and co-operation of District Boards and the local residents. In Sham Shui Po, for example, the District Board has give us a list of the signs suspected or reported to be abandoned or dangerous.