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Wednesday, December 13, 1972
MORE OFFENSIVE TRADES AREAS TO BE SET ASIDE
Position On Sheung Shui Tanneries Outlined
The Government has already drawn up plans for a number of large
sites to be set aside for more Offensive Trades areas, the District Commissioner
New Territories, the Hon. D.C. Bray, announced in the Legislative Council
today (Wednesday).
No new offensive trades, he said, would be allowed to establish
themselves outside these designated areas.
Referring to the tanneries at Sheung Shui, Mr. Bray said that
twenty-one of them had already deposited sufficient land exchange entitlements
to enable them to be allocated sites in the Offensive Trades Area in Kwai Chung.
These tanneries, he said, would be permitted to continue in
business at Sheung Shui during the period required for the completion of land
allocation formalities and the building of new factories.
But, while they are there, they will be required to comply with
certain special conditions designed to minimise, as far as is practical,
problems of pollution.
"They will furthermore have to meet a series of deadlines set to
ensure steady progress towards completion of the new factories and failure
to meet these will lead to their immediate clearance from Sheung Shui."
/Mr. Bray
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