XN000022-1988-06-01 — Page 14

13

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1, 1988

"BORDER

OPENING HOURS JOINT WORKING

REGULARLY BY A SHENZHEN OFFICIALS.

TRAFFIC

PROBLEMS

ARE REVIEWED OF HONG KONG AND

AND GROUP CONSISTING

AT "ALTHOUGH THERE ARE NO PLANS TO INTRODUCE A 24-HOUR SERVICE

ADJUSTMENTS ARE MADE AS POINT, THE MAN KAM

CROSSING TO BORDER

HE SAID. NECESSARY, WITH THE AGREEMENT OF BOTH SIDES,

"THE MAN KAM TO TERMINAL WAS FIRST SET UP THE OPENING HOURS WERE FROM 7.30 AM TO 6 PM.

EXTENDED

IN JULY 1980 WHEN

TO 8 PM ON OCTOBER 1, "THE CLOSING TIME WAS BECAUSE OF THE HEAVY TRAFFIC THROUGH THE CROSSING POINT.

1984

ON

AND 2.481 PASSENGERS "CURRENTLY AN AVERAGE OF 8,940 VEHICLES USE THE CROSSING POINT EVERY DAY ALTHOUGH BOTH FIGURES ARE GREATER PEAK DAYS.'

THE

NOT CONSTANT THROUGHOUT MR BARNES NOTED THAT THE TRAFFIC WAS

IN THE DAY AND THERE WERE IDENTIFIABLE PEAKS IN THE MORNINGS AND AFTERNOONS, ADDING THAT TRAFFIC WAS USUALLY LIGHT AFTER 7 PM.

AT THE CROSSING POINT "INEVITABLY THERE ARE SOME DELAYS

* AS IT WAS IN PEAK HOURS, BUT CONGESTION IS NOT NOW AS SERIOUS AUTUMN OF LAST YEAR.

AT THE

"THE SITUATION AT MAN KAM TO WILL BE

KEPT

UNDER REVIEW, HE

ADDED.

SOCIAL WORKER SHORTAGE UNDER STUDY

BY

SECRETARY FOR

LEGISLATIVE

THE ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON SOCIAL WORK TRAINING IS CONSULTED THE DIRECTOR OF SOCIAL WELFARE ON ALL ASPECTS OF SOCIAL WORK TRAINING, BUT IS NOT ITSELF RESPONSIBLE FOR MANPOWER POLICY, THE

THE HON JOHN CHAMBERS, SAID IN THE HEALTH AND WELFARE, COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY).

HON

HUI

CHAMBERS PLANS

REPLYING TO A QUESTION BY THE

MR YIN-FAT, SAID: "THE RESPONSIBILITY FOR FORMULATING MANPOWER POLICIES AND RESTS WITH THE DIRECTOR OF SOCIAL WELFARE AND MYSELF."

THE

THE EXTENT OF

*THE

AND

TRAINED SOCIAL WORKERS, HE SAID AS TO THE SHORTAGE OF DIRECTOR OF SOCIAL WELFARE HAD RECENTLY ASSESSED SHORTAGE AND WAS CONSIDERING THE INTRODUCTION OF A NUMBER OF LONG SHORT-TERM MEASURES TO ALLEVIATE THE PROBLEM.

"THE ADVISORY