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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1988

WITH OVER 1.500 MEMBERSHIP COMPRISES 380 MAJOR CHICKEN FARMS

CO-OPERATIVE SOCIETIES WITH CHICKEN FARMERS, 26 VEGETABLE MARKETING SOME

PIG VEGETABLE

AS

RAISING MEMBERS, AND 22 FARMERS 9,100 CO-OPERATIVE SOCIETIES WITH SOME 1,300 PIG FARMERS AS MEMBERS.

NOTE TO EDITORS:

YOU ARE INVITED

FEDERATION OF THE HONG SOCIETIES TOMORROW.

TO KONG

COVER THE INAUGURATION PRODUCTION AGRICULTURAL

OF THE JOINT AND MARKETING

CENTENARY ROOM,

THE INAUGURATION CEREMONY WILL BE HELD IN THE HONG KONG HOTEL, CANTON ROAD, KOWLOON, BEGINNING AT 2 PM.

AFD REPRESENTATIVES.

INFORMATION STAFF

WILL BE ON

HAND TO ASSIST

MEDIA

WATER POLLUTION IN HK SOUTH BEING TACKLED

THE GOVERNMENT IS MAKING EVERY EFFORT TO IMPROVE WATER QUALITY AT BEACHES ON THE SOUTHERN PART OF HONG

SECRETARY FOR (THURSDAY).

HONG KONG

AND KOWLOON,

KONG ISLAND, THE REGIONAL MR DAVID LAN, SAID TODAY

FOLLOWING A VISIT TO

THE SOUTHERN

MR LAN MADE THIS REMARK DISTRICT WHERE MANY OF HONG KONG'S MOST POPULAR BEACHES ARE LOCATED.

LANDS

HE SAID HE HAD CONSULTED THE ENVIRONMENT DIVISION OF THE

BRANCH AS AND WORKS

WELL AS THE DIRECTOR OF CIVIL ENGINEERING AT THOSE SERVICES, AND NOTED THAT THE MAIN CAUSES OF WATER POLLUTION BEACHES WERE POLLUTED STREAM COURSES AND

DISCHARGING INADEQUATELY TREATED DOMESTIC SEWAGE FROM

IN THE

HINTERLAND.

THE GOVERNMENT MR LAN POINTED OUT THAT MULTI-PRONGED APPROACH IN TACKLING THE PROBLEM.

DRAINS DEVELOPMENTS

WAS

ADOPTING NOW

A

CONTROL ZONE WAS ON THE LEGISLATION SIDE, THE SOUTHERN WATER

QUALITY OBJECTIVES FOR GAZETTED ON JULY 29 THIS YEAR, SETTING WATER THIS ZONE. LICENCES WERE NOW REQUIRED FOR NEW DISCHARGES OF SEWAGE.

OF WORKS ++ MR LAN SAID.

"APART FROM LEGISLATION MEASURES, A NUMBER WILL BE CARRIED OUT TO IMPROVE THE SITUATION,

PROJECTS

/HE ADDED