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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1988

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DISTRICT BOARD MEETING COSTS PUT AT $27,000

THE ADMINISTRATIVE

BOARD

AND STAFF COSTS INVOLVED IN HOLDING

ΤΟ AMOUNT

AN MEETING

ESTIMATED $27,000, DISTRICT LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL WAS TOLD TODAY (WEDNESDAY).

A THE

THE COSTS FOR A DISTRICT BOARD COMMITTEE MEETING AMOUNT ESTIMATED $13,000.

THESE

FIGURES

WERE

GIVEN

BY THE

SECRETARY

FOR ADMINISTRATION, THE HON DONALD LIAO, IN A WRITTEN REPLY TO A FROM THE HON TAI CHIN-WAH.

TO AN

DISTRICT QUESTION

TOOK ABOUT FOUR AND A

MR LIAO SAID THAT ON AVERAGE A

AND HOURS

HALF

MEETING OF A DISTRICT BOARD A DISTRICT BOARD COMMITTEE

MEETING TOOK ABOUT THREE HOURS.

FOR

AND IN THE THE ESTIMATED COSTS WERE CALCULATED ON THIS BASIS LIGHT OF THE AVERAGE STAFFING AND ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPORT PROVIDED THESE MEETINGS, HE EXPLAINED.

299 APPLICATIONS TO BUILD SMALI HOUSES IN NT

* * * *

A TOTAL OF 299 APPLICATIONS FOR LICENCES TO BUILD "SMALL HOUSES" IN THE NEW TERRITORIES HAD BEEN RECEIVED BETWEEN OCTOBER 1 LAST YEAR AND SEPTEMBER 30 THIS YEAR, THE SECRETARY FOR LANDS AND WORKS, THE HON GRAHAM BARNES, INFORMED THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY

(WEDNESDAY).

OF THESE APPLICATIONS, 81 HAD BEEN APPROVED SO FAR, MR BARNES SAID IN A WRITTEN REPLY TO A QUESTION FROM THE HON TAI CHIN-WAH.

MR TAI HAD ASKED HOW MANY APPLICATIONS FOR LICENCES ΤΟ BUILD SMALL HOUSES HAD BEEN RECEIVED SINCE PASSAGE OF THE BUILDINGS ORDINANCE (APPLICATION TO THE NEW TERRITORIES) BILL 1986.

MR BARNES SAID THE LOCALITIES APPLIED FOR WERE TUEN MUN, YUEN LONG AND SAI KUNG,

"AS IT TAKES AT LEAST SIX TO NINE MONTHS To PROCESS AN APPLICATION, MANY OF THOSE SUBMITTED IN THE LATTER PART OF THIS

12-MONTH PERIOD ARE STILL BEING PROCESSED, HE SAID.

-

"DURING THE SAME PERIOD, A TOTAL OF 236 APPROVALS WHICH INCLUDES APPLICATIONS SUBMITTED BEFORE OCTOBER ADDED.

1 +

WERE

ISSUED 1987," HE

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