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Monday, November 19, 1973

Officers from the Public Works Department, Urban Services

Department and various District Offices of the New Territories Administration

briefed the members of the party in different spots during the five-hour

tour.

N.T.A.,

Mr. I.F.C. Macpherson, Deputy District Commissioner, Mr. R. Oblitas

Deputy Director of the Urban Services Department, Mr. J.M Riddell-Swan, +

Deputy Director of Agriculture and Fisheries Department, Dr. S.H. Lee,

Deputy Director of Medical and Health Services, and Mr. H.D. Stead, Director

of Engineering Development also joined the visit.

At Gin Drinkers Bay Reclamation in Kwai Chung

formerly a

refuse dump they saw the progress work on the controlled tip where

operation had started and where work is carried out round the clook seven

days a week.

This controlled tip will take about two more years to form a

total of 47 acres of new land as its intake capacity is well over two

million tons of refuse other than covering material.

The members also gained information on the problem at the proposed

sites for controlled tipping at Crown Ridge and Chau Tau where objections

have been launched by villagers over sanitary conditions.

They also inspected controlled tipping sites at Shuen Wan off Ting

Kok Road, Taipo and Ngau Tan Mei in Yuen Long. Both sites were previously

used as refuse dumps but have been converted into controlled tips to provide

better environmental conditions.

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Suming up the visiting party's impression, Mr. H.M.G. Forsgate,

Chairman of the EPCOM, said he was greatly impressed by the great improvement

of environmental conditions in various controlled refuse tips since the

committee was formed two years ago.

Note to Editors: Copies of a photograph of the visit are boxed for

collection.

Release time: 7.30 p.m.