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The survey results are published in greater detail in the "Report on Half-yearly Business Prospects Survey, July 1995". The report is now on sale at $12 a copy at the Government Publications Sales Centre, Low Block, ground floor, Queensway Government Offices, 66 Queensway, Hong Kong, or at the Census and Statistics Department Publications Unit, 19th floor, Wanchai Tower, 12 Harbour Road, Wan Chai. Regular subscription may also be arranged.
Enquiries about the survey results may be made to the General Economic Surveys Section of the Census and Statistics Department on 2805 6642.
End/Monday, August 14, 1995
Update on landslips at Chai Wan and Aberdeen
Fire Services Department staff, assisted by geotechnical engineers from the Geotechnical Engineering Office (GEO), are continuing with the rescue and clearance operations at the two landslip sites at Chai Wan and Aberdeen.
Photographic records, ground survey and aerial photography of the sites for the technical investigation of the failure incidents are being arranged by GEO with the assistance from other government departments. GEO is also appealing to eye- witnesses of either incident to assist in its investigation, and to report to the GEO on 2762 5354.
The Fei Tsui Road landslip occurred in a registered rock cut slope. Preliminary inspection suggests that the failure was controlled by joints within the weathered rock in the cut slope. About 1,000 cubic metres of volcanic rock and soil fell onto a strip of vacant land at the slope toe, and moved across Fei Tsui Road before coming to rest against the Baptist Church building,
Above the failure, the comer wall of a service reservoir has been partly exposed. The Water Supplies Department has stopped pumping water into the reservoir. The Church building is closed but has been checked and found structurally sound.
At the Aberdeen incident, over 5,000 cubic metres of saturated, fine grained soil flowed down to the seashore at Po Chong Wan from an area of hillside about 50m wide by 150m long between Nam Long Shan Road and Shum Wan Road.