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THURSDAY, AUGUST 17, 1989
POSTAL ARRANGEMENTS FOR GENERAL HOLIDAYS
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ANNOUNCED
TODAY
(THURSDAY)
THE
POSTAL
THE ARRANGEMENTS DURING THE FORTHCOMING GENERAL HOLIDAYS IN END AUGUST.
OFFICE POST
THERE WILL BE ONE LETTER DELIVERY ON AUGUST PRECEDING THE LAST MONDAY IN AUGUST.
ON AUGUST 27, SUNDAY, AND ON AUGUST THERE WILL BE NO DELIVERY.
26, THE SATURDAY
28, THE LIBERATION DAY.
THE GENERAL POST OFFICE ON HONG KONG ISLAND AND TSUI POST OFFICE IN KOWLOON WILL BE OPEN FOR BUSINESS NOON ON AUGUST 26. OTHER POST OFFICES WILL BE CLOSED.
THE TSIM SHA FROM 9 AM ΤΟ
ALL POST OFFICES WILL BE CLOSED ON AUGUST 27 AND 28.
GRADING OF BEACH WATER QUALITY
(THURSDAY)
THE ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION DEPARTMENT (EPD) TODAY ANNOUNCED GRADES ON THE BACTERIAL WATER QUALITY OF ALL BATHING BEACHES IN HONG KONG.
EPD SPOKESMAN SAID THE PURPOSE OF THE GRADING SYSTEM IS TO OF BACTERIAL INFORM SWIMMERS AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC ABOUT THE STATE POLLUTION AT VARIOUS BEACHES.
THE GRADING
BE ANNOUNCED BIWEEKLY WILL SEASON, ΤΟ COINCIDE WITH THE FREQUENCY AT WHICH USUALLY SAMPLED.
THE DURING
BATHING BEACH WATERS ARE
THE GRADING IS BASED ON THE MOST RECENT BACTERIA DATA BY THE EPD IN ITS ROUTINE MONITORING PROGRAMME,
OBTAINED
AN THIS
THE GRADING ALSO INCLUDES YEAR, FOR THE FIRST TIME, THE GRADING ALSO ESTIMATE OF THE RISK OF SUFFERING SOME MINOR SKIN OR GASTROINTESTINAL COMPLAINTS AS A RESULT OF SWIMMING AT A BEACH WHICH HAS SOME DEGREE OF POLLUTION,
BODY OF STATISTICAL THE ESTIMATE IS BASED ON A VERY LARGE INFORMATION GATHERED IN HONG KONG DURING RECENT BATHING SEASONS.
THE
SUMMER. THIS GRADING OF SOME BEACHES MAY VARY DURING THE
BATHING REPRESENTS A NATURAL FLUCTUATION IN THE BACTERIAL QUALITY OF
POLLUTION WATERS IN MOST CASES, AS RAIN AND TIDES BRING MORE OR LESS TO THE BEACHES,
/BATHING WATERS
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