WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1988
"THE HARBOUR IS OFTEN
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QUOTED
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LAST
ONE BEING
100 YEARS
OF HONG KONG'S
WE HAVE BEEN
GREATEST NATURAL ASSETS. YET FOR THE BUSILY FILLING IT IN," HE SAID.
HE POINTED OUT THAT RECLAMATION REDUCED ANCHORAGE SPACE AND RESTRICTED THE AREA AVAILABLE FOR NAVIGATION.
HIGHWAY
"AS WELL AS BEING THE MAIN ARTERY THE PORT ALSO FORMS A MUNICIPAL SMALLER," HE ADDED.
AND MOORING
FOR HONG KONG'S COMMERCE, GETTING STEADILY WHICH IS
IT
MR HALL SAID THERE WERE OF COURSE OTHER CONSIDERATIONS AND
MANY COMPETING WAS GOVERNMENT'S FUNCTION TO STRIKE A BALANCE BETWEEN SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC REQUIREMENTS.
TT
AND
THE
ΤΟ
THOSE
"IT IS MY JOB HOWEVER TO PUT THE MARINE SIDE AS VIGOROUSLY EXTENSION OF MR HALL SAID. "WITHOUT AN FORCIFULLY AS POSSIBLE, AREA OF SHELTERED WATER, E.G. BY BREAKWATERS ETC., IT IS DIFFICULT
HARBOUR RECLAMATION SEE THERE IS ROOM FOR ANY FURTHER ALREADY PLANNED.
THAT
BETWEEN
THE
BEYOND
EXPLOITATION
OF
THE
ANOTHER CONFLICT WAS SEABED AND THE AVAILABILITY OF SAFE ANCHORAGES AND MOORINGS.
MR HALL SAID THAT THERE WERE VAST
FOR CONSTRUCTION FOR USE AS RECLAMATION-FILL OR
UP MODERN DREDGING TECHNIQUES COULD SEABED.
RESERVES
OF SAND PURPOSES
SUITABLE
AND THAT
"HOOVER"
MILLIONS
OF
TONS
OF
OUR
ANCHORAGES
BY
PERMITTED
ΤΟ
DESTROY
BE "BUT IT CANNOT DREDGING-OUT HOLDING GROUNDS TO UNACCEPTABLE DEPTHS.
THAT THE INTERESTS OF ALL COULD BE SATISFIED,
"AMPLE RESERVES OF SAND HAD BEEN IDENTIFIED IN OTHER AREAS
SAID MR HALL.
AND
"
FUTURE TURNING TO THE PLANNING OF
A WERE THERE THAT MR HALL SAID CONSULTANCIES UNDER WAY.
OF DEVELOPMENT
THE PORT, OF GOVERNMENT NUMBER LARGE
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THAT
THE AND
GOVERNMENT REFERRING TO "SOME RATHER UNKIND THINGS" SAID ABOUT
THIS WAS THE AGE OF HALL EXPLAINED CONSULTANCIES, MR
AND MORE
MORE VARIED AS TECHNOLOGIES BECAME SPECIALIST AND COMPLICATED THERE WAS INCREASING COMPARTMENTALISATION OF KNOWLEDGE.
ΤΟ GOVERNMENT
RETAIN
ON ITS
"IT WOULD NOT BE REALISTIC FOR PAYROLL EVERY SPECIALIST IT MIGHT CONCEIVABLY NEED.
"CONSULTANTS THEREFORE PROVIDE A ARE HIRED ONLY WHEN REQUIRED," HE SAID.
COST-EFFECT
SOLUTION. THEY
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