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FRIDAY, MAY 6, 1983

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**LEGAL ARRIVALS INVOLVEMENT DECREASED FROM 5.9 PER CENT (OR 480 PERSONS) OF ALL PERSONS PROSECUTED TO 5.6 PER CENT (OR 453 PERSONS) WHILST THE FIGURES FOR ILLEGAL ARRIVALS INCREASED MARGINALLY FROM 8.3 PER CENT (OR 679 PERSONS) TO 8.4 PER CENT (OR 683 PERSONS), MR WEBSTER SAID.

IN THE THREE-MONTH PERIOD, 104 VIETNAMESE REFUGEES WERE PROSECUTED FOR CRIME COMPARED WITH 100 IN THE LAST QUARTER OF 1982.

ON METHODS OF REPORTING CRIME, MR WEBSTER REMINDED THE PUBLIC OF THE CRIME INFORMATION FORMS WHICH WERE AVAILABLE FROM DISTRICT OFFICES, POST OFFICES, THE OFFICES OF MUTUAL AID COMMITTEES, OWNERS INCORPORATIONS AND ALL BRANCHES OF THE HONG KONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION, THE BELGIAN BANK AND THE KA WAH BANK.

**THE PROCEDURE IS SIMPLE - OBTAIN A FORM, FILL IT IN AND POST IT - WE WILL DO THE REST.''

MR WEBSTER RECALLED THAT THE FORK WAS INTRODUCED EARLY IN 1980 TO PROVIDE THE PUBLIC WITH AN EASY WAY OF SUPPLYING INFORMATION TO THE POLICE.

I MUST SAY THE RESULTS ACHIEVED TO DATE ARE IMPRESSIVE. UP TO THE END OF APRIL THIS YEAR, WE HAVE RECEIVED A TOTAL OF 3 080 FORMS FROM WHICH A TOTAL OF 174 ARRESTS HAVE BEEN MADE FOR A WIDE RANGE OF OFFENCES, INCLUDING MURDER, DRUG TRAFFICKING, BLACKMAIL, DECEPTION, WOUNDINGS, INDECENT ASSAULTS, POSSESSION OF ARMS AND BOOKMAKING — TO QUOTE A FEW,** MR WEBSTER SAID.

HE THANKED THE PUBLIC FOR THEIR RESPONSE AND HE WAS CONFIDENT THAT WITH TOTAL CO-OPERATION OF THE PUBLIC EVEN BETTER RESULTS WOULD BE ACHIEVED.

LAZARDS APPOINTED NUCLEAR PROJECT ADVISERS

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THE GOVERNMENT HAS COMMISSIONED LAZARD BROTHERS AND CO., LIMITED AS ITS ADVISERS ON THE FINANCIAL IMPLICATIONS OF THE GUANGDONG NUCLEAR POWER PROJECT.

COMMENTING ON THE APPOINTMENT A GOVERNMENT SPOKESMAN SAID THE FIRST TASK TO BE UNDERTAKEN BY LAZARDS WOULD BE TO EXAMINE THE FINDINGS OF THE FEASIBILITY STUDY THAT HAD BEEN PREPARED FOR THE PROJECT WITH A VIEW TO ADVISING ON THE VALIDITY OF ITS ASSUMPTIONS AND CONCLUSIONS.

+ IT IS HOPED THIS WILL CONFIRM THAT THE COST OF ELECTRICITY FROM THE STATION WILL BE NO GREATER THAN THE COST OF THAT WHICH COULD BE PRODUCED LOCALLY, THE SPOKESMAN SAID.

ONCE THIS INITIAL TASK HAS BEEN COMPLETED, LAZARDS WILL GO ON TO ADDRESS THEMSELVES TO THE OTHER ISSUES OF IMPORTANCE SUCH AS THE QUESTION OF AN OFF-TAKE AGREEMENT AND THE FINANCING OF THE PROJECT GENERALLY, INCLUDING THE QUESTION OF EQUITY.

WORK ON THE ASSIGNMENT WILL START IMMEDIATELY AND IT IS HOPED A REPORT WILL BE MADE BY LAZARDS TO THE GOVERNMENT BY AUGUST.

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