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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1988

IF AN UNSUCCESSFUL APPLICANT CONSIDERS THERE IS NEW EVIDENCE WHICH MERITS THE BOARD'S RECONSIDERATION OF HIS APPLICATION, HE SHOULD SEND HIS LETTER BY REGISTERED MAIL TO THE SECRETARY OF THE GREEN MINIBUS OPERATORS SELECTION BOARD, TRANSPORT DEPARTMENT, ON THE 28TH FLOOR, HIGH BLOCK, QUEENSWAY GOVERNMENT OFFICES, 66 QUEENSWAY, HONG KONG, BY FEBRUARY 26 THIS YEAR.

THE SPOKESMAN EMPHASISED THAT

REPRESENTATIONS RECEIVED AFTER FEBRUARY 26 COULD NOT BE CONSIDERED BECAUSE THE GAZETTED ROUTES MUST BE INTRODUCED AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.

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HE SAID THE DEPARTMENT WAS PLEASED WITH THE RESPONSE IN PRESENT EXERCISE AND ENCOURAGED THE TRADE TO APPLY FOR GREEN MINIBUS OPERATION WHEN NEW ROUTES WERE GAZETTED IN THE FUTURE.

KAM TIN RABIES INFECTED AREA RESCINDED

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LONG, HAS BEEN ANNOUNCED TODAY

THE RABIES INFECTED AREA IN KAM TIN, RESCINDED, WITH EFFECT FROM FEBRUARY 1, THE

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THE RECISION FOLLOWED CAREFUL REVIEW OF THE SITUATION BY THE AGRICULTURE AND FISHERIES DEPARTMENT.

IN JUNE AND JULY LAST YEAR, THREE INDIGENOUS CANINE RABIES CASES OCCURRED IN THE AREA FOLLOWING THE FIRST OUTBREAK IN TA KWU LING EARLIER IN JUNE.

THE RABIES INFECTED AREA AT TA KWU LING WAS RESCINDED IN LATE

DECEMBER.

THE DEPARTMENT'S SENIOR VETERINARY OFFICER, DR NORMAN CHENG, SAID: "AS A RESULT OF VIGOROUS RABIES CONTROL ACTIVITIES IN THE AREA, INCLUDING ELIMINATION OF STRAY DOGS AND AN INTENSIVE INOCULATION CAMPAIGN, THE SITUATION IS NOW WELL UNDER CONTROL.

"THERE HAS BEEN NO FURTHER OUTBREAK OF THE DEADLY DISEASE IN THE LAST SEVEN MONTHS."

DR CHENG SAID THE DESIGNATION OF THE FRONTIER CLOSED AREA AS A RABIES INFECTED AREA WOULD, HOWEVER, REMAIN IN FORCE TO PREVENT THE RE-INTRODUCTION OF THE DISEASE INTO THE TERRITORY.

HE ALSO, SAID THAT IN VIEW OF THE CONSTANT THREAT OF SPORADIC OUTBREAKS, THE DEPARTMENT WOULD CREATE TWO ADDITIONAL MOBILE INOCULATION TEAMS ON MOTORCYCLES AND ONE ADDITIONAL DOG-CATCHING TEAM TO REINFORCE ANTI-RABIES OPERATION.

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