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MONDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1989

SAID THAT PAYMENTS OF A SOCIAL WELFARE DEPARTMENT SPOKESMAN

SITE FORMATION AND DOMESTIC RE-ACCOMMODATION, RE-EQUIPMENT,

REPAIR YEAR'S TOTAL GRANTS MOUNTED TO $1.8 MILLION, OR 84 PER CENT OF THE EXPENDITURE. MEANWHILE, GRANTS FOR PRIMARY PRODUCE WERE SLIGHTLY $300,000.

OVER

13

THE RESPONSIBILITY FOR APPROVING GRANTS AND MAKING PAYMENTS

DEPARTMENT, IN MOST CASES VESTED IN OFFICERS OF THE SWD, THE HOUSING

AGRICULTURE AND FISHERIES DEPARTMENT THE MARINE DEPARTMENT AND THE

WHILE THE CITY AND NEW TERRITORIES ADMINISTRATION IS OVERALL CO-ORDINATION IN THE VARIOUS DISTRICTS.

THAT GRANTS

RESPONSIBLE FOR

BE MIGHT THE SPOKESMAN EXPLAINED PERSON WHO WAS LEGALLY IN HONG KONG AND WHO WAS IN NEED OF A NATURAL DISASTER SUCH AS TEMPEST, TYPHOON, AND FLOODING, WHICH HAD CAUSED SUFFERING OR LOSS TO MERITED ASSISTANCE.

MADE

ΤΟ ANY AS A RESULT

RAINSTORM, LANDSLIDE AN EXTENT WHICH

COLLAPSE, BOAT CAPSIZE, BUILDING OR ON A

"IN ADDITION, VICTIMS OF FIRE, HOUSE

DANGEROUS A SHIPWRECK, EXPLOSION, EVICTION FROM COURT ORDER ARE ALSO ELIGIBLE FOR ASSISTANCE.

"HOWEVER, NO PAYMENT WILL BE

THE PERSONALLY RESPONSIBLE FOR EXAMPLE ARSON, BREACH OF MARINE REGULATIONS, HE SAID.

ACT

TO MADE

LEADING

THE DISASTER, DELIBERATE NEGLIGENCE,

ANY APPLICANT WHO IS

ΤΟ

FOR

"

"PUBLIC

DONATIONS SPECIFICALLY

GIVEN

A

FOR VICTIMS OF

THE DESIGNATED PAYMENT

PARTICULAR INCIDENT WOULD BE DISBURSED EXCLUSIVELY TO VICTIMS AND PAID IN ADDITION TO ANY ENTITLEMENT UNDER THE ERF SCHEDULE, EVEN IF THE DONATION IS SPECIFIED FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, THE SPOKESMAN CONCLUDED.

"

'NO PREFIX' LUCKY CAR NUMBERS FOR AUCTION

* *

"

NEW

NUMBERS FOR THEIR CAR OWNERS WHO WISH TO ACQUIRE "NO PREFIX VEHICLES TO GREET THE YEAR OF THE HORSE SHOULD NOT MISS THE LUNAR YEAR LUCKY VEHICLE NUMBER AUCTION ON SATURDAY, JANUARY 6.

THE AUCTION, ORGANISED BY THE TRANSPORT DEPARTMENT, WILL 21 SPECIAL CAR NUMBERS WITH NO PREFIX FOR SALE, AND THE PROCEEDS GO TO THE CHARITABLE LOTTERIES FUND.

OFFER

WILL

HEADING THE LIST IS THE CAR NUMBER 2828 WHICH IS LUCKY NUMBER MEANING "EASY TO PROSPER”.

CONSIDERED

A

/THE NUMBERS