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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1987

THE WEIGHTED AVERAGE RATES OF INCREASE WILL BE 4.7 PER CENT FOR

TOWN NEW

3.5 SERVICES, CROSS-HARBOUR AND

PER CENT SERVICES AND THREE PER CENT FOR VEHICULAR SERVICES.

HYF'S LAST FARE INCREASE WAS IN JANUARY LAST YEAR.

PASSENGER

SERVICES, ADULT

FOR

OUTLYING

FARES WILL BE $75 INSTEAD TSUI FARE

FOR CROSS-HARBOUR REVISED FROM $1.70 TO $1.80 AND MONTHLY TICKETS WILL COST OF $70. FARES FOR CHILDREN AND THE TEMPORARY CENTRAL TO TSIM SHA UNCHANGED. THERE WILL BE NO EAST HOVERFERRY SERVICE INCREASE FOR NEW TOWN PASSENGER SERVICES.

ON HYF'S

REMAIN

OUTLYING ISLANDS AND TOLO HARBOUR

THE SERVICES, AFTERNOONS, SUNDAYS SATURDAY

AND PUBLIC DELUXE CLASS FARES DURING

$7 TO HOLIDAYS WILL BE INCREASED FROM $11 TO $12 FOR ADULTS AND FROM

INCREASED FROM $165 ΤΟ $7.50 FOR CHILDREN. MONTHLY TICKETS WILL BE $185.

FARE

ALL

AND FARES WEEKDAY SUNDAYS AND PUBLIC

NO THERE WILL BE

INCREASE FOR ORDINARY CLASS FARES DURING SATURDAY AFTERNOONS, HOLIDAYS.

FROM $6 FOR MOTORCYCLES AND INCREASE FOR GOODS VEHICLES

AS FOR VEHICULAR FERRY FARES, THERE WILL BE INCREASES TO $6.50 FOR PRIVATE CARS OR TAXIS; $3 TO $3.50 $10 TO $11 FOR BUSES. THERE WILL BE NO FOR THE TIME BEING.

CHARGES

FOR

FREIGHT

INCREASE FROM $6 TO $6.50

FOR

CARRIED ON

EVERY

CROSS-HARBOUR

ROUTES WILL 60 KG OR 0.12 CUBIC METRE. FREIGHT CHARGES ON OTHER SERVICES WILL NOT BE AFFECTED.

SEARCH AND RESCUE EXERCISE BEGINS

A MAJOR SEARCH AND RESCUE EXERCISE COORDINATED BY THE CIVIL AVIATION DEPARTMENT AND INVOLVING A NUMBER OF GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS AND REGIONAL EMERGENCY UNITS, WILL BE HELD FROM TODAY (WEDNESDAY) TO FRIDAY.

A SPOKESMAN FOR THE CIVIL AVIATION DEPARTMENT SAID THE MAIN OBJECTIVE OF THE EXERCISE WAS TO TRAIN AND FAMILIARISE STAFF OF THE DEPARTMENT AND OTHER SUPPORTING UNITS IN SEARCH AND RESCUE TECHNIQUES.

"IT WILL ALSO SERVE ΤΟ TEST THE ALERTING AND COORDINATING PROCEDURES AND COMMUNICATIONS FACILITIES, "HE SAID.

/"IN ADDITION,