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香港政府
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DAILY INFORMATION BULLETIN
HA TSUEN RANGE
Friday, November 17, 1972
New measures to eliminate problems over the use of the Ha Tsuen
Range were announced today when the Hong Kong Government confirmed that the
live-firing range must continue to be used.
Fundamental to the new measures will be the building of a new
access road and gun positions by British Army engineers. Completion of this
new project will take about one year.
As a result more than 600 acres of land at present within the
gazetted area of the range will be excluded when the new gazetted boundaries
of the range are drawn up. This includes the private agricultural land west
of Ha Tsuen Village. The new high velocity gun positions will also be 2,000
metres or more further away from the Ha Teuen villages, thus considerably
reducing noise nuisance and inconvenience to the public,
Announcing the new measures today a Government spokesman reiterated
that it had always been the Government's and the Army's policy to minimise
such inconvenience to the villagers of Ha Tsuen as far as was possible.
the spokesman stressed that the range firing facilities are essential to the
British Services in Hong Kong if their proper efficiency is to be maintained.
The Ha Tsuen Range
Issued by Government Information Services, Beaconsfield House, Hong Kong. Tel: 5-233101
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