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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 12, 1989

ASBESTOS IN BRAKE LININGS HARMLESS

NOT CREATE AND WORKS,

THE ASBESTOS CONTAINED IN VEHICLE BRAKE LININGS DO ANY ADVERSE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT, THE SECRETARY FOR LANDS THE HON GRAHAM BARNES, TOLD THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY).

BARNES

ASBESTOS FROM BRAKE OF THE ASBESTOS WAS BRAKE OPERATION INTO A

REPLYING TO A QUESTION FROM PROF. THE HON C.K. POON, MR

PORTION OF VERY SMALL BXPLAINED THAT ONLY A

AS MOST FIBRES LININGS WAS RELEASED AS FREE CHANGED BY THE INTENSE HEAT AND ABRASION OF HARMLESS NON-FIBROUS MATERIAL.

H

NEGLIGIBLE, "ITS RISK ON THE HEALTH OF THE PUBLIC AT LARGE IS MR BARNES ADDED.

BI-SESSIONAL CONVERSION TARGETTED FROM 1994: SEM

AT THE TIME FRAME THE GOVERNMENT WAS LOOKING CONVERSION OF BI-SESSIONAL PRIMARY SCHOOL TO WHOLE DAY THE PERIOD 1994 TO 2006, THE SECRETARY FOR EDUCATION THE HON RON BRIDGE, TOLD THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY

FOR A COMPLETE SCHOOLING WAS AND MANPOWER, (WEDNESDAY).

BRIDGE

REPLYING TO A QUESTION FROM THE HON DR HENRIETTA IP, MR

FOR VARIOUS OPTIONS

PHASING OUT SAID THE GOVERNMENT WAS STUDYING BI-SESSIONAL PRIMARY SCHOOLS WITHIN A REASONABLE NUMBER OF YEARS.

SINCE

A

LARGE

FOR FULL WERE REQUIRED FINDING SUITABLE SITES FOR WOULD REDUCE ALL OF THEM, THE GOVERNMENT WAS STUDYING AN OPTION THAT THE NUMBER OF NEW SCHOOLS NEEDED, HE ADDED.

OF SCHOOLS NUMBER CONVERSION, AND THERE WAS DIFFICULTY IN

MIXED MODE PRIMARY SCHOOLS, IN THIS OPTION WOULD INVOLVE A

DAY WHICH OLDER CHILDREN (PRIMARY FOUR TO SIX) WOULD GO TO SCHOOL ALL

CONTINUE THE HALF DAY WHILE CHILDREN IN PRIMARY ONE TO THREE WOULD SESSION, HE NOTED.

COMPLICATED BOTH FOR SCHOOLS AND PARENTS CONVERSION,' MR BRIDGE EXPLAINED.

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"THIS WOULD REDUCE THE NUMBER OF NEW SCHOOLS NEEDED, BUT

AND WOULD ADMINISTRATION

BE REQUIRE CHANGES TO SCHOOL

THAN A PROGRAMME OF

WOULD MORE FULL

HE SAID