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Wednesday, December 13, 1972
Mr. Bray said the remaining 34 tanneries, who were unable individually
to acquire land exchange entitlements, had now found it possible to combine
into two or three consortia with better prospects of being able to obtain
the necessary finance.
He said they had until December 31 to do this and if they succeeded
they would be treated in the same way as the first group. "If they fail,
there will be no alternative but to clear them," he stressed.
Mr. Bray added that the Government had given the operators of
the Sheung Shui tanneries every chance to re-establish themselves in conditions
environmentally acceptable because they had been in operation for a long
time
some of them for more than twenty years.
"In any event, he said, "we feel that we have now gone as far as
we can to accommodate the smaller operators who are bound to have difficulties
in operating on an acceptable basis."
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