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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1989

THE

NEW

DISTRICT

FOR

TOO

CONSTRUCTION UNDER HEADQUARTERS WAS COMPLETION IN MID-1991, WHEN EXISTING BUILDING, WHICH WAS OLD AND

WOULD

DEMOLISHED TO SMALL,

NEW REGIONAL

HEADQUARTERS.

BE

MAKE

WAY

FOR

THE

NEW TERRITORIES ARE THE VAST GROWTH OF TRANSPORT NEEDS IN THE

VIADUCT BEING EASED WITH THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE SHING MUN TUNNEL AND

EARLY NEXT SYSTEM LINKING SHA TIN AND TSUEN WAN, DUE TO BE COMPLETED

WILL YEAR, AND THE TATE'S CAIRN TUNNEL FROM SHA TIN TO KOWLOON, WHICH EASE CONGESTION AT THE LION ROCK TUNNEL FROM MID-1991.

SUMMING UP, MR SMALLSHAW SAID: "THE INCREASE REGION CONTINUES. IT WAS UP 10 PER CENT IN THE SECOND YEAR.

IN CRIME IN THE QUARTER OF THE

IN "THE OTHER POINT IS THAT WE CONTINUE TO HAVE A BIG INCREASE

KOWLOON IN MOTOR VEHICLES.

OVERTOOK IN 1987 THE NEW TERRITORIES

DRIVEN BY VEHICLES THE NUMBER OF KILOMETRES VEHICULAR KILOMETRAGE -

AND IT ON THE ROADS BY HAVING 40 PER CENT OF THE TOTAL KILOMETRAGE CONTINUES TO GO AHEAD OF EVERYWHERE ELSE.

++

"THANKFULLY ACCIDENT RATES HAVE NOT GONE UP

DOWN THIS YEAR.'

AND ARE SLIGHTLY

MAINTAINING TRADING CREDIBILITY A KEY OBJECTIVE

*

THE

A KEY OBJECTIVE OF MAINTAIN THE CREDIBILITY OF ALL FULFILMEN" OF ITS INTERNATIONAL BILATERAL TRADE AGREEMENTS.

TRADE DEPARTMENT

MEASURES ADOPTED BY

UNDER OBLIGATIONS

IS ΤΟ

CUSTOMS AND

SECURE AND KONG IN

HONG MULTILATERAL AND

THE DIRECTOR-GENERAL OF TRADE, MR MICHAEL SZE, SAID THIS (SATURDAY) WHEN HE TOOK THE SALUTE AT A PASSING-OUT PARADE.

TODAY EXCISE SERVICE

OPERATION

OF,

EVER

EXCISE

"WE HAVE TO ENSURE THE INTERGRITY AND EFFICIENT FOR INSTANCE, THE TEXTILES QUOTA CONTROL SYSTEM. THIS CAN HARDLY

INPUT OF THE CUSTOMS BE ACHIEVED WITHOUT THE STERLING

"

DEPARTMENT, MR SZE SAID.

HE DESCRIBED THE DEPARTMENT

EXPORT

ENFORCING THE IMPORT AND

AND

AS HIS MOST IMPORTANT ALLY

TACKLING LICENSING ORDINANCE.

ORIGIN FRAUDS, AND CRACKING DOWN ON COUNTERFEITING ACTIVITIES.

IN

AND

HONG KONG BECAME A

MR SZE NOTED THAT

ATTAINED LATER.

SEPARATE

CONTRACTING

THE

CUSTOMS

PARTY TO THE GENERAL AGREEMENT ON TARIFFS AND TRADE IN APRIL 1986 AND,

OF MEMBERSHIP SEPARATE YEAR CO-OPERATION COUNCIL. HONG KONG IS NOW A SEPARATE CUSTOMS TERRITORY.

A

"THIS IMPORTANT