PAH 7 4000091
KRE GIS 新聞處
DAILY INFORMATION BULLETIN
Monday, November 6, 1972
ACTION TO REMOVE ILLEGAL TANNERIES
Thirty small illegal tanneries operating in the Sheung Shui area of
the New Territories are to be cleared as from November 28.
The land for these and other tanneries in the area was re-entered by
the Crown on January 26 this year for failure to clear the illegal tanneries
from their land and to revert it to its permitted agricultural user.
A Government spokesman said today that the owners had been given
repeated notice about the action to be taken to clear the tanneries, but these
30 had failed to make any concrete plans for removal.
In their petition, which has been rejected by the Governor in Council,
the 30 owners had asked for land to be made available cheaply in Kwai Chung or
at Tai San Wei in the Yuen Long District and for time to construct new factories
there.
The spokesman said these owners had been given the opportunity of
buying sites in the Offensive Trades Area in Kwai Chung, but failed to
take up the offer.
He said the request for the relocation of their factories at Tai San
was not acceptable as the establishment of tanneries there would
involve the discharge of affluents and other wastes into a natural
Wai
watercourse.
The spokesman pointed out that the operators had been given the option
of accepting flatted factory accommodation in Yuen Long together with domestic
accommodation for their families at either Yuen Long, Tuen Mun or Kwai Chung.
/The Labour
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