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+APPLICANTS WILL NEED TO APPLY IN PERSON TO THE PUBLIC SECURITY AUTHORITIES OF THE COUNTY OR CITY IN GUANGDONG WHERE THEIR HOUSEHOLDS ARE REGISTERED.

*THEY CAN DO THIS THROUGH THEIR RELATIVES IN CHINA OR WITH THE ASSISTANCE OF FISHERMEN ASSOCIATIONS IN HONG KONG OR IN CHINA, HE SAID.

+ONCE THE GUANGDONG PUBLIC SECURITY AUTHORITIES HAVE APPROVED THE EXIT PERMITS, THE APPLICANTS SHOULD RETURN TO CHINA, BY WAY OF THE FISHING PORT WHERE THEIR HOUSEHOLDS ARE REGISTERED, TO COLLECT THEIR PERMITS, HE CONTINUED.

+THEY WILL THEN, WITHIN A PERIOD OF TIME PRESCRIBED BY THE GUANGDONG AUTHORITIES, HAVE TO ENTER HONG KONG VIA LO WU,+ HE SAID.

MEANWHILE. THE STATUS OF THE BOAT BRIDES IN HONG KONG WOULD REMAIN UNCHANGED UNTIL THEIR PRESENCE HERE HAD BEEN REGULARISED.

+THIS ARRANGEMENT WILL ENABLE THEM TO STAY IN HONG KONG WATERS WITH THEIR FAMILIES UNTIL THEIR EXIT PERMITS ARE READY FOR THEM IN CHINA,+ HE SAID,

HOWEVER, +OTHER NON-HONG KONG BOAT WIVES FOUND IN HONG KONG WATERS WITHOUT LANDING AND BOARDING PERMITS' WILL BE REPATRIATED,+ HE STRESSED.

AT PRESENT THERE WERE MORE THAN 1 000 BOAT WIVES IN HONG KONG WATERS ISSUED WITH LANDING AND BOARDING PERMITS'.

+THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT'S PRACTICE HAS BEEN TO TOLERATE THE PRESENCE OF THESE BOAT WIVES ON FISHING VESSELS IN HONG KONG WATERS BUT NOT TO ALLOW THEM TO LAND EXCEPT IN SPECIAL CIRCULANCES,+ HE SAID.

REFERRING TO THE 14 BOAT WIVES WHO WERE REPATRIATED TO CHINA IN AUGUST 1985, MR JE AFFRESON SAID THEY HAD ALL RETURNED TO HONG KONG AFTER BEING ISSUED WITH EXIT PERMITS BY THE CHINESE AUTHORITIES.

COMMITTEE TO ASSESS FINANCIAL IMPLICATIONS OF EDUCATIONAL CHANGES *****

A STEERING COMMITTEE HAS ALREADY BEEN SET UP TO IMPLEMENT A RECOMMENDATION IN THE EDUCATION COMMISSION'S REPORT NO. 2 TO DEVELOP FINANCIAL MODELS WHICH WOULD HELP TO QUANTIFY THE IMPLICATIONS OF EDUCATIONAL CHANGES.

THIS WAS STATED BY THE SECRETARY FOR EDUCATION AND MANPOWER, THE HON RON BRIDGE. IN A WRITTEN REPLY TO A QUESTION DY DR THE HON CONRAD LAM ABOUT THE PROPOSAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG TO ADOPT A FOUR-YEAR DEGREE COURSE.

/MR BRIDGE