XN000022-1980-10-07 — Page 2

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1980

$15 DOG LICENCE FEE ABOLISHED

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THE GOVERNMENT HAS DECIDED TO ABOLISH THE $15 DOG LICENCE FEE.

A SPOKESMAN SAID IT WAS HOPED THE ABOLITION OF THE FEE WOULD ENCOURAGE MORE PEOPLE TO HAVE THE IR DOGS INOCULATED AGAINST RABIES.

+ INOCULATION IS DONE AT THE TIME OF LICENSING AND IT IS HOPED THAT BY MAKING LICENSING FREE IT WILL ENCOURAGE MORE DOG OWNERS TO BRING THEIR ANIMALS IN, HE SAID.

THE ABOLITION OF THE FEE IS INCLUDED IN THE DOGS AND CATS (AMENDMENT) REGULATIONS 1980 PUBLISHED IN AN EXTRAORDINARY GOVERNMENT GAZETTE TODAY.

UNDER THE DOGS AND CATS REGULATIONS IT IS COMPULSORY FOR OWNERS TO LICENSE THEIR DOGS EVERY THREE YEARS. A CONDITION OF THE LICENCE IS THAT THE ANIMAL BE INOCULATED AGAINST RABIES.

THE SPOKESMAN EXPLAINED THAT WHILE THE FEE HAD BEEN ABOLISHED, THE REQUIREMENT TO OBTAIN A DOG LICENCE ITSELF REMAINED.

$600 MILLION SPENT ON DEVELOPMENT OF KAI TAK AIRPORT

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NEARLY $600 MILLION WAS SPENT ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF HONG KONG INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT — AN AVERAGE OF $40 MILLION A YEAR WITH THE SPENDING REACHING A PEAK OF $88 MILLION IN 1973-74.

THE DIRECTOR OF CIVIL AVIATION, MR B.D. KEEP, SAID THIS TODAY (TUESDAY) AT A RECEPTION AND PHOTOGRAPHIC EXHIBITION MARKING THE FINAL PHASE OF THE RE-DEVELOPMENT OF THE AIRPORT.

HE SAID THE TERMINAL WAS ORIGINALLY DESIGNED TO HANDLE ABOUT 550 PASSENGERS AN HOUR BUT THAT THE PRESENT TERMINAL CAN HANDLE 5 000 PASSENGERS AN HOUR.

+THE ORIGINAL PARKING APRON HAD SPACES FOR 10 AIRCRAFT, THE PRESENT PARKING APRON HAS SPACES FOR BETWEEN 29 AND 33 AIRCRAFT DEPENDING UPON THE SIZE OF THE AIRCRAFT.+

ON THE OPERATIONAL SIDE, MR KEEP POINTED OUT THAT, THE MOST SIGNIFICANT DEVELOPMENT WAS THE EXTENSION OF THE RUNWAY WHICH REPRESENTED A GREAT IMPROVEMENT IN AIRCRAFT HANDLING CAPABILITY OF THE AIRPORT AND HAS PERMITTED AIRCRAFT TO FLY FROM HONG KONG TO PLACES AS FAR AS SAN FRANCISCO AND SYDNEY NON-STOP.

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