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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29, 1988

GENERAL AVIATION

MOVEMENTS

PRIVATE AIRCRAFT AND EXECUTIVE

OF THE TOTAL

PROPORTION

AIR

HE ALSO INVOLVING SMALL JETS AT PRESENT CONSTITUTED A TRAFFIC.

SAID THE LOCALLY-REGISTERED

NUMBER

OF

SMALL

ΚΑΙ TAK ACCOUNTED

IN 1987, LOCAL CIVIL AIRCRAFT MOVEMENTS AT FOR ABOUT 5,000 OF THE TOTAL OF SOME 87,000 MOVEMENTS,

"THE RELATIVELY LOW PERMITTED THESE FLIGHTS TO BE ACCOMMODATED AT DO CERTAIN RESTRICTIONS TO ENSURE THAT DEMANDS PLACED ON THE

VOLUME

OF SUCH

COMMERCIAL

MOVEMENTS AIRCRAFT

TAK, KAI

ALBEIT WITH THE NOT IMPINGE UPON

AIRLINE

HAS

OPERATIONS, MR NENDICK SAID.

THEY USE OF THE AIRPORT BY

STRESSING THE CONTRIBUTION OF KAI TAK TO HONG

NEEDS, MR NENDICK SAID THE TRAFFIC TO SEK KONG.

GOVERNMENT

SAW NO

NECESSITATED

AND

PASSENGER

THE SUBSTANTIAL INVESTMENTS RUNWAY, TO INSTALL OTHER AIRPORT AND TO PROVIDE LOCAL TRANSPORT DEVELOPMENT POTENTIAL OF THE SEK KONG AIRFIELD.

INFRASTRUCTURE

NEED

——

LONG'S AVIATION TO DIVERT AIR

TO UPGRADE THE

FACILITIES

ALSO LIMITED THE

TERMINAL

CONSIDERATIONS,

MILITARY

SUCII USAGE

DEVELOPMENTS ARE

"I

OF THE

AIRFIELD,'

"APART FROM COST

CONSIDERED INCOMPATIBLE WITH THE

HE ADDED.

KAI TAK HAD SERVED

KONG'S HONG CONTINUE ΤΟ DO SO FOR A

MR NENDICK EMPHASISED THAT AVIATION NEEDS WELL, AND WAS EXPECTED TO NUMBER OF YEARS.

POPULATION-JOB BALANCE SOUGHT IN NEW TOWNS

A BALANCE

BETWEEN

OF

POPULATION

AND

EMPLOYMENT

POLICY

IN

AND

WORKS,

THE

CREATION OF

HAS BEEN AN AIM

THE GOVERNMENT'S OPPORTUNITIES DEVELOPING NEW TOWNS, THE ACTING SECRETARY FOR LANDS HON ROBIN SAUNDERS, SAID IN THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY).

EXPRESSED IN THIS OBJECTIVE

AND

LAND OF

TO RESERVATION COMMERCIAL ACTIVITIES COMMENSURATE WITH

WAS

DISPOSAL

TERMS OF THE ACCOMMODATE

PRODUCTION,

AND INDUSTRIAL THE ANTICIPATED NUMBERS OF BY DR RESIDENT WORKERS, MR SAUNDERS SAID WHEN REPLYING TO A QUESTION THE HON CHIU HIN-KWONG,

"THE ESSENTIAL