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TUESDAY, JANUARY 12, 1988

MILLION HAVE THEM

THE GOVERNMENT HAD MADE AVAILABLE $4.5 ALLOWANCES TO AFFECTED OYSTERS FROM THE SEABED.

OYSTER

ΤΟ FARMERS

IN EX-GRATIA REMOVE THEIR

IN ADDITION, THE GOVERNMENT ALSO ACCEPTED TWO PROPOSALS BY OMELCO AS A RESULT OF A PETITION FROM SOME OF THE OYSTER FARMERS.

THE

PART THE FIRST PROPOSAL WAS THAT WHERE A MAJOR

OF AN OYSTER

BED WAS CLEARED FOR THE MARINE

PROJECT, TRANSPORTATION ROUTE RENDERINGTHE CULTIVATION OF THE REMAINING PORTION OF THE OYSTER BED OUTSIDE THE ROUTE ECONOMICALLY UNVIABLE, THE ADMINISTRATION CONSIDER MAKING A SPECIAL ALLOWANCE TO THE AFFECTED OYSTER FARMERS.

TO

ANY THE

WOULD

THERE WERE

EX-GRATIA ALLOWANCE, OF THE SATISFACTION

THE SECOND PROPOSAL FROM THE OMELCO WAS THAT WHERE CLAIMS FROM FARMERS WHO HAD NOT BEEN GIVEN BUT WHO WERE ABLE TO PRODUCE EVIDENCE, ADMINISTRATION, THAT THEY HAD BEEN GENUINELY CONDUCTING OYSTER CULTIVATION WITHIN THE PROJECT AREA, THE CONSIDER SUCH CLAIMS AND MAKE APPROPRIATE EX-GRATIA PAYMENTS.

ADMINISTRATION

WOULD

CLAIMANT THE

PER WAS APPROVED BY

IN FACT, THE PROPOSED ADDITIONAL OFFER OF $1,950 IN COMPENSATION FOR THE LOSS IN FARM EQUIPMENT FINANCE COMMITTEE ON DECEMBER 9, 1987.

THE YUEN LONG DISTRICT LANDS OFFICE HAD ISSUED OFFER LETTERS TO THE ELIGIBLE OYSTER FARMERS CONCERNING THESE TWO PROPOSALS.

MEETING ON JANUARY 7.

REPRESENTATIVES OF UNITED ASSOCIATION TODAY

AT THE REQUEST OF 16 FARMERS DURING A THE YUEN LONG DISTRICT OFFICER, MR ALAN WONG, MET THE NEW TERRITORIES OYSTER AND TO HEAR THEIR VIEWS.

CRUSTACEAN

DURING THE

AND

ONE-AND-A-HALF HOUR

RE

A CLAIMS

MEETING, MR WONG TOLD THE THE SIDE SCAN

PRACTICABLE,

SONAR FAIRLY FOR EX-GRATIA

REPRESENTATIVES THAT THE GOVERNMENT CONSIDERED

TO SURVEY, ACCOMPANIED BY DIVING CHECKS, ACCURATE

RELIABLE METHOD ΤΟ ASSESS ALLOWANCES AND THAT THERE WAS NO NEED ΤΟ CONDUCT ANOTHER DIVING SURVEY AFRESH AS REQUESTED BY SOME OYSTER FARMERS.

"THE RATE OF EX-GRATIA ALLOWANCES OFFERED BY THE GOVERNMENT WAS REASONABLE AND

HAD IN FACT REEN INCREASED $9.40 PER SQUARE METRE TO $10.90 PER SQUARE METRE,

IT

RECENTLY FROM MR WONG SAID.

OF

"SINCE DECEMBER 1985, THE DISTRICT OFFICE HAS HELD A SERIES MEETINGS WITH REPRESENTATIVES OF THE TWO OYSTER FARMERS' ASSOCIATIONS IN LAU FAU SHAN AND OTHER PARTIES CONCERNED ΤΟ DISCUSS DETAILED ARRANGEMENTS," HE ADDED.

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