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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 18, 1978

BOOKLET ON PLOVER COVE

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A FULL-COLOUR BOOKLET ON PLOVER COVE, HONG KONG'S FIRST RESERVOIR FROM THE SEA, IS ON SALE AT THE GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS CENTRE AT GENERAL POST OFFICE BUILDING, CONNAUGHT PLACE.

THE 16-PAGE BOOKLET, AT 34 EACH, IS THE FIRST OF A SERIES OF THREE PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT'S BOOKLETS ON WATER PROJECTS.

THE OTHER TWO ARE ON LOK ON PAI DESALTING PLANT AND HIGH ISLAND WATER SCHEME. THEY ARE EXPECTED TO BE PUBLISHED IN THE NEXT FEW MONTHS.

MR. WILLIAM TUCKER, DIRECTOR OF WATER SUPPLIES, RECALLED THAT THE IDEA OF CONVERTING SEA INLETS INTO FRESH-WATER RESERVOIRS BY DAMMING THE INLET CAME FROM HIS PREDECESSOR, THE LATE MR. T.O. MORGAN, WHEN HE WAS SWIMMING IN TOLO HARBOUR SOME 20 YEARS AGO.

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HE SAID THAT THE BOOKLET WHICH IS VIVIDLY ILLUSTRATED BY COLOUR PHOTOGRAPHS, MAPS AND DIAGRAMS GAVE THE HISTORY OF PLOVER COVE, DETAILS OF DIFFERENT STAGES OF CONSTRUCTION AND PROBLEMS WHICH HAD TO BE OVERCOME IN THE COURSE OF CONSTRUCTION.

THE BOOKLET IS THE FIRST PUBLISHED BY THE P.W.D. FOLLOWING

THE COMPLETION OF THE WHOLE PROJECT.

TWO OTHER COLOUR BOOKLETS ON PLOVER COVE RESERVOIR WERE PRODUCED DURING ITS VARIOUS STAGES OF CONSTRUCTION.

TRAFFIC ARRANGEMENTS IN TAI KOK TSUI

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THE TRANSPORT DEPARTMENT ANNOUNCED TODAY THAT FROM 13 A.M. ON FRIDAY (JANUARY 20), THE SECTION OF TUNG CHAU STREET BETWEEN ITS TWO JUNCTIONS WITH WILLOW STREET WILL BE RE-ROUTED FROM TWO-WAY TO ONE-WAY NORTHWEST BOUND TO FACILITATE THE CONSTRUCTION OF WEST KOWLOON CORRIDOR.

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ALONG WITH THIS TRAFFIC RE-ROUTING, MAPLE STREET BETWEEN TUNG CHAU STREET AND BEDFORD ROAD WILL BE RE-ROUTED ONE-WAY SOUTHWEST BOUND AND BEDFORD ROAD BETWEEN WALNUT STREET AND TAI KOK TSUJ ROAD RE-ROUTED ONE-WAY NORTHWEST BOUND.

NORTHBOUND TRAFFIC IN TUNG CHAU STREET TRAVELLING TO TAI KOK TSUI ROAD WILL BE DIVERTED VIA MAPLE STREET AND BEDFORD ROAD.

APPROPRIATE TRAFFIC SIGNS WILL BE SET UP IN THESE AREAS TO ASSIST MOTORISTS.