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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24, 1987

ASSISTANCE TO "WHERE APPROPRIATE, WE ARE PROVIDING

INDUSTRY, OF CHEMICAL WASTE AND OTHERS, IN THE FORM

TREATMENT AND DISPOSAL FACILITIES AND RATHER MORE ADVISORY SUPPORT THAN IS COMMON ELSEWHERE, HE ADDED.

MR FORD SAID WHEN THE 80 PER CENT ADDITIONAL MANPOWER

THE ΤΟ ALLOCATED

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

HAD DEPARTMENT

BEEN WOULD HAVE A TEAM OF ABOUT RECRUITED AND TRAINED, HONG KONG

336 THE PROTECTION OF ENGINEERS, SCIENTISTS AND TECHNICIANS, ALL HAVING THE ENVIRONMENT AS THEIR SOLE MOTIVATION.

INITIATIVES

COURSE

ON THE ACADEMIC SIDE, MR FORD SAID NEW

PROTECTION WOULD RESULT ENVIRONMENTAL

IN AN MSC

A NEW ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT AT HONG KONG UNIVERSITY, ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES AT THE CITY POLYTECHNIC, AND VARIOUS COURSES FOR PROFESSIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL INSTITUTIONS AT THE POLYTECHNIC.

OF

IN

DIPLOMA IN QUALIFYING HONG KONG

ENVIRONMENT WAS A

PRIVATE AND PUBLIC

JOINT

HE CONCLUDED THAT PROTECTION OF THE ENTERPRISE REQUIRING CONTRIBUTIONS FROM BOTH THE SECTORS.

HONG KONG VALUES ITS COMMONWEALTH LINKS

MR

HONG KONG HAS ALWAYS VALUED COMMONWEALTH, THE ATTORNEY GENERAL, (WEDNESDAY).

ITS LEGAL LINKS WITH THE MICHAEL THOMAS, SAID TODAY

SPEAKING AT A LUNCHEON MEETING OF THE ROYAL COMMONWEALTH SOCIETY, MR THOMAS SAID THE TERRITORY SHARES A COMMON LEGAL HERITAGE WITH MANY COMMONWEALTH MEMBER STATES.

SO SIMILAR ARE THE LAWS OF MANY COMMON LAW JURISDICTIONS THAT JUDGES AND COUNSEL FROM ONE JURISDICTION ARE ABLE TO SERVE OR PRACTISE EQUALLY WELL IN ANOTHER.

HE SAID THAT IN PRACTICAL TERMS HONG KONG'S LINKS WITH THE COMMONWEALTH ARE BOTH FORMAL ONES

CONFERENCES, AGENCIES, ASSOCIATIONS OR SCHEMES

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AND INFORMAL ONES.

"HONG KONG HAS ALWAYS VALUED ITS COMMONWEALTH

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GOOD REASON, THE ATTORNEY GENERAL SAID.

LINKS, AND FOR

FIRSTLY, THEY HAVE HELPED HONG KONG GREATLY IN BUILDING UP A COMMON LEGAL HERITAGE, HE SAID.

THIS PROVIDES