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FRIDAY, MARCH 31, 1989

ΤΟ

SUCH GOODS, ACCORDING TO MR YEUNG, MIGHT BE LIABLE FOR RETURN

KONG IF THE UK LABORATORY

HONG UNSATISFACTORY.

RESULTS TEST

PROVED

TO

BE

"THE ONUS IS NOW ON OUR MANUFACTURERS TO USE HOKLAS ACCREDITED LABORATORIES AND FOR THOSE LABORATORIES TO PROVIDE RELIABLE TEST

BE ACCEPTED ON RESULTS WHICH WILL

FACE VALUE BY NAMAS, LABORATORY TESTING AUTHORITY, HE SAID.

"

UK'S

THERE ARE 20

HOKLAS WAS LAUNCHED IN MAY 1985. AT PRESENT, ACCREDITED LOCAL LABORATORIES, PERFORMING A WIDE RANGE OF TESTING.

THE ACCORDING TO

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR (QUALITY SERVICES) OF

YEAR THE NUMBER INDUSTRY, MR ERNEST EVANS, BY THIS TIME NEXT

OF ACCREDITED LABORATORIES IN THE TERRITORY SHOULD BE OVER 30.

ONLY AFTER HE EMPHASISED THAT LABORATORIES WERE ACCREDITED

ASSESSMENT PROCESS, METICULOUS

WERE LABORATORIES THAT

UNABLE COMPLY WITH HOKLAS CRITERIA WERE NOT ACCREDITED.

SUBSEQUENTLY

A то

ΤΟ FAILED

MEET

AND THOSE THAT WERE ACCREDITED THEIR OBLIGATIONS WERE SUSPENDED FROM THE SCHEME, HE ADDED.

MR EVANS SAID HE WAS CONFIDENT THAT HONG KONG NOW HAD AVAILABLE

SERVICE QUALITY A MATURE

ON OVERALL COMPETENCE AND THE INTEGRITY OF TESTING.

BUILT

UK

BESIDES MR YEUNG, OTHER SIGNATORIES OF THE HONG KONG/UNITED KINGDOM BILATERAL AGREEMENT INCLUDED DR PAUL DEAN, DIRECTOR OF THE

LABORATORY, NATIONAL PHYSICAL

WHO REPRESENTED THE UK GOVERNMENT, MR EVANS AND MR JOHN SUMMERFIELD, HEAD OF NAMAS.

GOOD START TO TREE PLANTING SCHEME

PLANTING

PUBLIC RESPONSE TO THIS YEAR'S COMMUNITY TREE HAS BEEN SO OVERWHELMING THAT IN THE EASTER HOLIDAY PERIOD MORE THAN 6,590 PEOPLE PARTICIPATED IN PLANTING 7,690 TREES.

OF THESE PEOPLE, 3,620 WERE IN GROUPS.

ANOTHER 110 GROUPS, TOTALLING 9.000 PEOPLE, REGISTERED WITH THE AGRICULTURE AND FISHERIES DEPARTMENT, TREES IN THE COMING WEEKS.

SCHEME ALONE,

WHO WILL

HAVE PLANT

THE COMMUNITY TREE PLANTING SCHEME IS ORGANISED BY THE AGRICULTURE AND FISHERIES DEPARTMENT FOR THE 32ND CONSECUTIVE YEAR.

THE 1989 SCHEME BEGAN ON MARCH 24 AND TREE PLANTING DAYS WILL BE HELD ON EVERY SUNDAY AND PUBLIC HOLIDAY UNTIL THE END OF APRIL.

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