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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23,

1988

BROKE

OUT

DURING THE

FESTIVAL

LAST

YEAR

EIGHT HILL FIRES DESPITE VERY HUMID WEATHER.

MR LAU SAID THE DECREASING HUMIDITY HAD VERY VULNERABLE TO FIRES ON THIS OCCASION.

HOURS

MADE THE COUNTRYSIDE

"TWO DAYS AGO, A FIRE BROKE OUT IN THE TAI BLAZING FOR

20

AND DAMAGING MORE THAN OF COUNTRYSIDE AND 4,000 TREES.

"IN VIEW OF

THE

PREVAILING POTENTIAL

LAM COUNTRY PARK, SOME 50 HECTARES

DANGER, ANY

CARELESS

||

HE SAID.

AND

HANDLING OF FIRE COULD EASILY SET THE COUNTRYSIDE ABLAZE,

MR LAU POINTED OUT THAT IT WAS AN OFFENCE UNDER THE FOREST

PARKS THE

ORDINANCE

LIGHT COUNTRY

TO COUNTRYSIDE ORDINANCE AND

A RELEASE

HUNG MING LANTERN IN A COUNTRY FIRES ILLEGALLY OR TO PARK OR ANYWHERE IN THE COUNTRYSIDE.

TO A

UP ΤΟ

"ILLEGAL LIGHTING OF FIRES INSIDE COUNTRY PARKS MAY LEAD MAXIMUM FINE OF $5,000 AND ONE YEAR'S IMPRISONMENT, AND A FINE $2,000 MAY BE IMPOSED FOR CAUSING A FIRE IN THE COUNTRYSIDE," HE SAID.

HOLIDAY CLINIC SERVICES

EIGHT

GOVERNMENT OUT-PATIENT CLINICS WILL REMAIN OPEN

MID-AUTUMN

MONDAY (SEPTEMBER 26), THE DAY FOLLOWING THE WHICH IS A PUBLIC HOLIDAY.

ON

FESTIVAL

THE RIGHT CLINICS WHICH WILL BE OPEN FROM 9 AM TO 1 PM ARE THE VIOLET PEEL HEALTH CENTRE AND SHAU KEI WAN JOCKEY CLUB CLINIC ON HONG KONG ISLAND; KWUN TONG JOCKEY CLUB HEALTH CENTRE, ROBERT BLACK HEALTH CENTRE AND YAU MA TEI JOCKEY CLUB CLINIC IN KOWLOON; LADY TRENCH POLY-CLINIC, YUEN LONG JOCKEY CLUB HEALTH CENTRE AND SHEK WU HUI JOCKEY CLUB CLINIC IN THE NEW TERRITORIES.

ALL OTHER OUT-PATIENT AND EVENING CLINICS WILL BE CLOSED.

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