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Wednesday, June 20, 1973

The unit also maintained 500 feet of oil booms to contain oil spillages

and to protect such vital areas as typhoon shelters, beaches and waterfronts,

and a further 1,600 feet of light weight oil beams could, when necessary, be

provided on loan by oil companies.

In addition to these facilities, the Fire Services Department

maintained three fire boats which were equipped to deal with oil spillages and

fully manned on a 24-hour basis, Mr. Haddon-Cave said.

The Royal Hong Kong Auxiliary Air Force helicopters were also available

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for reconnaissance purposes, he added.

12 MILLION VEHICLES CROSS THE HARBOUR SINCE AUGUST

Almost 8.5 million vehicles, excluding C.M.B, and K.M.B. buses, have

used the cross harbour tunnel since its opening in August last year. At the

same time, 3.6 million vehicles were carried on the Hongkong and Yaumati

vehicular ferries.

The breakdown of the figures was given to the Legislative Council

today by the Financial Secretary, the Hon. C.P. Haddon-Cave,

The figures showed that in its first month of operation nearly 693,000

vehicles used the tunnel.

This climbed to a peak of 980,000 in March this year, but then dropped

back to 932,000 the following month, only to rise again in May to 944,000.

During last August, the number of vehicles carried on the ferries was

just over 381,000 and since then this has fluctuated from a low of 302,500

in February to 371,000 the following month. In May the figure stood at 358,000.

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