LEGISLATIVE
Meeting to be held on Wednesday, 28th July, 1965 at 2.30 p.m.
ORDER OF BUSINESS
CONFIRMATION OF MINUTES OF MATING HELD ON 7TH JULY. 1965,
AFFIRMATION.
Dr. Chung Sze-yuen to make an Affirmation of Allegiance.
PAPERS TO BE LAID.
4 QUESTIONS.
(1) Mr. Kan Yust-keung, pursuant to notice, will ask the following
questions -
2.
What is Government's present policy regarding the imposition of penalties for delay in (a) compliance with Exclusion
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Orders and (b) fulfilment of building covenants under Government granta generally?
In his speech at the Budget Debate last March, the Commissioner of Labour stated that the smoke problem caused by the power station of the China Light & Power Co. in Kowloon was under active discussion between the Company and various Government departmenta concerned.
Is Government now in a position to state
(a) What are the results of these discussions, and
(b) Whether any effective measures have been devised for the
abatement of this smoke nuisance?
3. (a) Will Goverment inform this Council what is its attitude
towards the discriminatory treatment by the Philippine Government towards Hongkong residents of Ohinese origin in requiring finger-printing upon entry into the Philippines? (b) Why does Government consider it inappropriate or
unnecessary to take counter-measures in regard to entry of Philippine nationals into Hongkong?
(2) Mr. Szeto Wai, pursuant to notice, will ask, the following questions :-
1.
Is Government aware of the fears which have arisen from the recent accidental drowning of four schoolboys at the Hunghom reclamation and of another young person in a disused quarry pit, and will Government investigate what steps can be taken to prevent future occurrences of this nature?
2. (a) Does Government agree that the protection in typhoon weather
of the increasing number of small craft in local watera is becoming a problem through congestion of the existing sheltering facilities, especially in the harbour, and that this problem may become aggravated in one case by the possible development of a cross-harbour road link with its attendant landfall development?
(b) What plans does Government have to alleviate these conditions
both for the present and in the future?
No comments yet.
Private notes are available after approval.