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HONG KONG DOMERNMENT INFORMATION SERVICES

DAILY

INFORMATION BULLETIN

Wednesday, August 30, 1972

IMPROVED CROSS-HARBOUR TRANSPORT FACILITIES.

The Hongkong and Yaumati Ferry Company has proposed changes in its

vehicular ferry services and these will provide for a better spread of cross-

harbour transport facilities which will benefit the community as a whole.

This was stated today by the Financial Secretary, the Hon. C.P.

Haddon-Cave, in the Legislative Council while moving a motion on amendments to

the Schedule to the Hongkong and Yaumati Ferry Company (Services) Ordinance.

With the opening of the cross-harbour tunnel, the company had applied

for the introduction of a new service from North Point to Kwun Tong, and from

Jubilee Street to Tai Kok Tsui, while maintaining the present Jubilee Street-

Jordan Road service.

Another proposed change, he said, was the termination of the existing

North Point-Kowloon City service when the proposed North Point-Kwun Tong service

came into operation.

The Financial Secretary said the proposed changes were designed to

achieve four objectives:

To minimise the duplication of services between the vehicular

ferries and the cross-harbour tunnel;

To reduce to a minimum redundancies among ferry vessels and

workers;

To encourage a complementary cross-harbour transport system; and

To relieve .............