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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1984

ON CLAUSE 5 WHICH READ +JUDGMENT RECOVERED AGAINST ANY PERSON LIABLE IN RESPECT OF ANY DEBT OR DAMAGE SHALL NOT BE A BAR TO AN ACTION ...+, MR WONG SAID IT WAS FELT THAT THE WORD +RECOVERED+ MIGHT GIVE RISE TO SITUATIONS WHICH MIGHT BE CONTRARY TO THE SPIRIT OF ENCOURAGING SETTLEMENT.

+THE ADMINISTRATION HAS NOW AGREED TO USE THE WORD 'OBTAINED' INSTEAD, WHICH WOULD BE MORE IN LINE WITH THE OBJECT OF THE PRESENT EXERCISE,+ HE SAID.

ACTION AGAINST DANGEROUS SIGNBOARDS ****

DURING THE LAST FOUR MONTHS, 74 DANGEROUS SIGNBOARDS HAD BEEN FOUND IN MONG KOK AND YAU MA TEI AND 69 OF THEM HAD ALREADY BEEN DEALT WITH, THE SECRETARY FOR HOME AFFAIRS, THE HON DENIS BRAY, TOLD THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY.

+ACTION ON THE REMAINING FIVE IS IN HAND, + MR BRAY SAID,

HE WAS REPLYING TO THE HON PAULINE NG ABOUT THE PROGRESS ON

THE CONTROL OF COMMERCIAL SIGNBOARDS.

+THE POSITION WAS EXPLAINED. NO NEW PROPOSALS WERE MADE SO THE POSITION NOW IS MUCH AS IT WAS FOUR MONTHS AGO, MR BRAY SAID.

BILLIARD SALOON SEGREGATED FROM FLATS *****

THE LICENSING AUTHORITY IN THE NEW TERRITORIES HAD BEEN SATISFIED THAT THE PROPOSED PREMISES FOR A BILLIARD SALOON AT MAYFAIR GARDENS ON TSING YI WAS SUFFICIENTLY SEGREGATED FROM THE RESIDENTIAL FLATS, THE SECRETARY FOR HOME AFFAIRS, THE HON DENIS BRAY, TOLD THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY.

AS THERE WAS ALSO A SEPARATE ACCESS TO THE PROPOSED SALOON, THERE WAS NO CAUSE FOR CONCERN ON ACCOUNT OF NOISE, MR BRAY SAID.

HE WAS REPLYING TO THE HON DR HARRY FANG, WHO HAD ASKED ABOUT THE CIRCUMSTANCES IN WHICH PERMISSION HAD BEEN GIVEN TO ESTABLISH THE SALOON.

MR BRAY EXPLAINED THAT THE LICENSING AUTHORITY HAD CONSIDERED THE ISSUE AS AN APPLICATION FOR A LAWFUL BUSINESS,

/IN THE