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WEDNESDAY, MAY 17, 1989

MEASURES TO CLEAR GRAVEL ON ROADS ADEQUATE

ALTHOUGH THERE ARE

ADEQUATE

BE

ROAD SWEEPING MEASURES, FLYING GRAVEL IN HIGH SPEED ROADS IS A DANGER TO WINDSCREENS WHICH CANNOT ENTIRELY ELIMINATED.

THE SECRETARY FOR LANDS AND WORKS, THE HON GRAHAM BARNES, INFORMED THE LEGISLATIVE - COUNCIL OF THIS TODAY (WEDNESDAY) IN A WRITTEN REPLY TO A QUESTION FROM THE HON CHAN YING-LUN.

THE

MR BARNES SAID THAT ROAD SWEEPING WAS SHARED BETWEEN HIGHWAYS DEPARTMENT AND THE TWO MUNICIPAL COUNCILS WITH THE HIGHWAYS THE COUNCILS THE DEPARTMET RESPONSIBLE FOR THE HIGH SPEED ROADS AND REST.

'THE DEPARTMENTS CONCERNED BELIEVE THAT THESE MEASURES ARE GUARD COMPLETELY GENERALLY ADEQUATE BUT DO NOT BELIEVE THAT THEY CAN

PIECE FLYING UP AT A AGAINST FLYING GRAVEL, AS EVEN A SMALL

HIGH

SPEED CAN BREAK A WINDSCREEN,

זז

HE SAID.

SQUATTERS TO BE CLEARED FROM UNSAFE SLOPES

THE EARLY

ALL SQUATTERS WILL BE CLEARED FROM UNSAFE SLOPES BY 1990'S TO ELIMINATE ALL RISKS FROM LANDSLIPS DURING HEAVY RAINFALL,

THE SECRETARY FOR LANDS

THE WORKS, AND

HON GRAHAM BARNES,

IN COUNCIL OF

(WEDNESDAY) TODAY THIS INFORMED THE LEGISLATIVE WRITTEN REPLY TO A QUESTION FROM THE HON POON CHI-FAI.

A

MR BARNES GOVERNMENT SOME TIME AGO UNDER WHICH AND REHOUSED BY THE HOUSING DEPARTMENT.

REFERRED

ΤΟ A

CLEARANCE 38,000

POLICY ADOPTED SQUATTERS WERE

BY THE CLEARED

"ALTHOUGH OVER 10,000 STILL REMAIN, IT IS HOPED THAT THEY

IN THE

BY THE ALL BE CLEARED FROM UNSAFE SLOPES 1990'S.

URBAN AREA

WILL EARLY

SYSTEM IS USED ΤΟ URGE "MEANWHILE, A PRESCRIBED WARNING SQUATTERS TO TAKE REFUGE IN RECEPTION CENTRES WHEN EXCEPTIONALLY HEAVY

HE SAID. RAINFALL CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED TO OCCUR,

T

CONCERNING THE FLOODING IN SOME AREAS ON MAY 2, MR BARNES

ALMOST THE MAIN CAUSE WAS THE EXCEPTIONALLY HEAVY RAINFALL OF SHORT-TERM INTENSITIES, PARTICULARLY IN KWUN TONG.

SAID

RECORD

THE SITUATION