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Thursday, July 20, 1972

$50,000 PAID IN SETTLEMENT OF DISPUTE

A total of more than $50,000 is being paid to a group of workers

retrenched by an engineering company on Ap Lei Chau.

More than $25,000 has been given to the workers and a similar

amount will be paid at a later date already agreed to by the parties

concerned.

The dispute arose over the retrenchment of 136 workers of the

Elling Engineering Company Limited and was amicably settled with the

help of the Labour Department.

Officers of the Labour Relations Service paid two visits to

the company and conducted five joint meetings for the two parties.

Agreement was reached at a joint meeting on Tuesday (July 18),

RAINSTORM CLOSED ROAD REOPENS

A section of Barker Road in the peak district, which was closed to

traffic following the rainstorms in mid-June, has been reopened to traffic.

The road had been blocked between house No. 27 and No. 31 while

repairs were carried out.

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