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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1987

AS MUCH DOES NOT

"BASICALLY THE REPORT RECOGNISES THAT HAWKING IS A FACT OF LIFE IN HONG KONG. WHILE WE MUST TRY TO REDUCE ON-STREET HAWKING AS POSSIBLE, WE MUST ACCEPT IT TO SOME EXTENT SO LONG AS IT CAUSE UNACCEPTABLE CONGESTION OR HYGIENE PROBLEMS.

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OF THE SUGGESTED IMPROVEMENTS THE SPOKESMAN SAID THAT A FEW

SUCH AS THE CONTAINED IN THE REPORT HAD ALREADY BEEN PUT INTO FORCE,

PAYMENT SCHEME EX-GRATIA

LICENSEES REINTRODUCTION OF THE ON-STREET AND OFF-STREET COOKED-FOOD STALLS,

FOR

OF

STILL HAD TO GO TO THE COUNCIL'S

DELIBERATION COMMITTEE FOR

AND

BUT THE MAIN RECOMMENDATIONS MARKETS AND STREET DECISION, AND THENCE TO THE STANDING COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE COUNCIL.

TRADERS SELECT

"IN THE MEANTIME, TODAY WILL NOT CHANGE SPOKESMAN.

PUBLICATION THE PRESENT

THE OF

HAWKERS, SITUATION OF

WORKING

PARTY

11

REPORT SAID THE

"ALL

EXISTING POLICIES

AND

REGULATIONS

WILL CONTINUE

THE GENERAL

IN

OPERATION AS BEFORE, AND WILL CONTINUE TO BE ENFORCED BY DUTIES TEAMS.

THE HAWKER BACK TO OUT A

INTRODUCING THE REPORT, MRS ELSIE TU, CHAIRMAN OF WORKING PARTY, SAID THAT THE HISTORY OF THE WHITE PAPER WENT

HAD TO IT REALISED EARLY 1984, WHEN

COUNCIL THE PAINSTAKING AND IN-DEPTH STUDY OF THE HAWKER PROBLEM.

CARRY

DEPTH OF

3-1/2 YEARS SHE SAID: "THE FACT THAT IT HAS TAKEN UNTIL NOW THE ILLUSTRATES

THE LATER TO PRODUCE THE FINAL REPORT

PAPER WAS WORKING PARTY'S ENQUIRIES AND HOW, SINCE THE PARTY'S GREEN

THE HAS THE WORKING PARTY

REAPPRAISED ISSUED IN DECEMBER 1985,

INTO ACCOUNT THE WIDE PROPOSALS CONTAINED IN THAT DOCUMENT TO TAKE SPECTRUM OF VIEWS IT GENERATED.

ADDED HAS

TO, WEALTH

ALTERED

"AS A RESULT IT ORIGINAL IDEAS IN THE LIGHT OF THE VARIOUS COUNTER-PROPOSALS RECEIVED.

"IN SHORT, THE WHITE PAPER IS MANY RESPECTS FROM THE GREEN PAPER

OR

AMENDED

THOSE OF THIS ADVICE AND THE

A VERY DIFFERENT DOCUMENT IN AND A BETTER ONE.

BEING DRAFTED MRS TU ALSO ANNOUNCED THAT, WHEN THE REPORT WAS

INVOLVED IN IMPROVED HAWKER AND THE MASSIVE FINANCIAL IMPLICATIONS

THE RELEVANT CONTROL BECAME INCREASINGLY OBVIOUS, AN ADVANCE COPY OF CHAPTERS WAS SENT TO THE CHIEF SECRETARY.

INTO

SET UP UNDER AS A RESULT, A TOP LEVEL WORKING GROUP HAD BEEN THE CHAIRMANSHIP OF THE SECRETARY FOR MUNICIPAL SERVICES TO LOOK THE PROBLEM OF MANPOWER FOR HAWKER CONTROL MANAGEMENT.

THIS WAS