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TUESDAY, JULY 28, 1987

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DREDGING AND RECLAMATION FOR NEW CONTAINER TERMINAL

RECLAMATION

AND SEA-BED AT BACK UP

GOVERNMENT HAS GIVEN THE GO-AHEAD FOR DREDGING AND WITHIN AN AREA OF ABOUT 263.7 HECTARES OF FORESHORE LAI CHI KOK TO PROVIDE LAND FOR A NEW CONTAINER TERMINAL AND AREAS.

IT IS PART OF FURTHER EXPANSION OF KWAI CHUNG CONTAINER PORT WHICH, IN TERMS OF THROUGHPUT, RANKS ONLY SECOND TO ROTTERDAM.

APPROACHES,

AND BE COMPLETED IN EARLY

WORK, INCLUDING DREDGING OF THE SEA-BED FOR MARINE IS EXPECTED TO COMMENCE IN APRIL, 1988, 1993.

THE AREA AFFECTED IS DESCRIBED IN PUBLISHED IN THE RECENT GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.

A NOTICE

OF AUTHORISATION

BE SHOULD

SENT

TO THE

FOR COMPENSATION ANY WRITTEN CLAIM DIRECTOR OF BUILDINGS AND LANDS WITHIN ONE YEAR.

TWENTY-THREE LIFE SAVERS HONOURED

TWENTY-THREE PEOPLE WERE

TODAY (TUESDAY) PRAISED FOR THEIR

CIVIC-MINDEDNESS IN SAVING 57 PEOPLE FROM DROWNING LAST YEAR.

IN RECOGNITION OF

THEIR

DIRECTOR OF AGRICULTURE AND

SELFLESS

AND COURAGEOUS

ACTS,

THE

FISHERIES, DR LAWRENCE LEE, PRESENTED

AWARDED FOR RESCUING THEM WITH THE RESCUE STARS, THE HIGHEST HONOUR PEOPLE IN DISTRESS AT SEA, AT PUBLIC BEACHES AND IN SWIMMING POOLS.

REGIONAL AMONG THE AWARD RECIPIENTS WERE 10 LIFE GUARDS OF THE

THE OCEAN PARK AND EIGHT SERVICES DEPARTMENT, FIVE LIFE GUARDS OF FISHERMEN, THE FISHERMEN HAD SAVED A TOTAL OF 23 PEOPLE.

KAM-FOOK

AND MR LAI SHUI-YAU TWO OF THE FISHERMEN, MR CHOW WERE COMMENDED FOR EACH RESCUING FIVE PEOPLE IN THE PAST YEAR.

THE HONG KONG LIFE SPEAKING AT THE PRESENTATION CEREMONY AT

25TH YEAR GUARD CLUB IN REPULSE BAY, DR LEE SAID THAT IT WAS NOW THE

ANNUAL EVENT WAS FIRST ORGANISED SINCE THIS VERY WORTHY JOINTLY BY THE CLUB AND THE AGRICULTURE AND FISHERIES DEPARTMENT.

IN 1962

AWARDED BY THE "OVER THESE YEARS, 774 RESCUE STARS HAVE BEEN CLUB TO MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC, FISHERMEN IN PARTICULAR," DR LEE SAID.

/HE ALSO