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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22, 1988

AS FOR MAJOR BUS OR FERRY ACCIDENTS, ΤΟ REPORT REQUIRED

WERE

FERRY OPERATORS DIRECTOR OF MARINE RESPECTIVELY.

THE FRANCHISED BUS AND TO THE POLICE AND THE

UTILITIES TO ESTABLISH

SIMILAR PROCEDURES EXISTED FOR PUBLIC THE CAUSE OF ACCIDENTS AND REPORT TO THE GOVERNMENT.

NO

STRESSED

EMERGENCY MR

THAT LEUNG EFFECTIVELY PROVIDE FOR THE VARIETY, COMBINATION AND ACCIDENT.

COULD PROCEDURES

EFFECTS OF ANY

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HOWEVER, HE ASSURED MEMBERS THAT ALL PRACTICABLE MEASURE BE TAKEN TO MINIMISE DISRUPTION.

INCONVENIENCE TO COMMUTERS WAS INEVITABLE, CONGESTED ROADS AND THE VERY HIGH DENSITY OF VEHICLES HE ADDED.

WOULD

GIVEN HONG KONG'S PER KILOMETRE,

UNDERSTANDING

THE SECRETARY CALLED FOR PUBLIC PATIENCE AND THOSE CIRCUMSTANCES, AND HE URGED MOTORISTS TO AVOID CORRIDORS.

IN

USING CONGESTED

NEED FOR MARINE RESERVES BEING EXAMINED

THE

MARINE RESERVES FOR

LOCAL

AND MARINE EDUCATIONAL INTEREST,

SAID IN

THE GOVERNMENT IS EXAMINING THE NEED FOR

AREAS CERTAIN

OF THE PURPOSE OF CONSERVING COASTAL ENVIRONMENT WHICH ARE OF SCIENTIFIC OR THE SECRETARY FOR HEALTH AND WELFARE, THE HON JOHN CHAMBERS, THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY).

DR THE HON CONRAD LAM, THE ADMINISTRATION WAS IN THE A PROPOSAL FOR

IN A WRITTEN REPLY TO A QUESTION BY MR CHAMBERS SAID CONSULTATION WITHIN PROGRESS TO EXAMINE THE VARIOUS IMPLICATIONS CREATION OF A MARINE RESERVE.

THE PROPOSAL WAS MADE RECENTLY CONJUNCTION HONG

IN KONG,

NATURE, ASSOCIATION OF HONG KONG.

"THE CONCEPT OF MARINE RESERVE

INVOLVING PLANNING CONTROLS

OF

FOR

BY THE WORLD WIDE FUND WITH THE MARINE BIOLOGICAL

PARKS IS AN AND STATUTORY

ATTRACTIVE

PROTECT AN AREA OF THE MARINE ENVIRONMENT,

ONE,

TO

PREVENTION POLLUTION HE SAID.

AREAS

WHIT

THE PROTECTION OF IT WOULD BE APPROPRIATE FOR

CONTAINING NATURAL ARE AT PRESENT RELATIVELY OR COMPLETELY UNSPOILT,

AND DESIRED BY THE FLORA AND FAUNA RARE OR UNIQUE WITHIN HONG KONG, COMMUNITY TO BE KEPT IN THAT CONDITION.

SEEM APPROPRIATE, HOWEVER. MR CHAMBERS ADDED THAT IT DID NOT

BATILING TO USE THE MARINE PARK CONCEPT FOR THE PROTECTION OF GAZETTED

COMPATIBLE WITH MASS BEACHES, FOR WHICH OTHER FORMS OF RECREATION, WERE NECESSARY.

PROTECTION,

THESE INCLUDED THE WATER POLLUTION CONTROL HONG KONG PLANNING STANDARDS AND GUIDELINES.

ORDINANCE AND THE

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