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THURSDAY, MARCH 8, 1990

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CONTRACT FOR LANTAU FIXED CROSSING SITE INVESTIGATION AWARDED

AWARDED A $38.2 MILLION

SITE

THE HIGHWAYS DEPARTMENT HAS INVESTIGATION CONTRACT FOR THE LANTAU FIXED CROSSING WHICH WILL FORM A VITAL LINK TO THE NEW AIRPORT AT CHEK LAP KOK.

THE CONTRACT WAS SIGNED TODAY (THURSDAY) BETWEEN GOVERNMENT ENGINEER/NORTH LANTAU

LINK, MR KENNETH LEUNG KWOK-SUN, AND REPRESENTATIVES OF THE GAMMON-BACHY SOLETANCHE JOINT VENTURE, MR

K.L. CHONG AND MR MARTIN PRATT,

MR LEUNG SAID THE SEVEN-MONTH INVESTIGATION WOULD INVOLVE EXPLORATORY LAND DRILLING ON TSING YI, MA WAN AND LANTAU, AS WELL AS OFFSHORE DRILLING IN THE MA WAN CHANNEL AND KAP SHUI MUN TO ASSESS GEOLOGICAL CONDITIONS.

"THE FINDINGS OF THE INVESTIGATION WILL BE ESSENTIAL FOR THE DESIGN OF BRIDGE FOUNDATIONS AND BORED TUNNELS ALONG THE ROUTE AND THE ASSESSMENT OF THE FEASIBILITY OF AN ALTERNATIVE SUBMERGED TUBE TUNNEL CROSSING," HE SAID.

SHIP

MR LEUNG ADDED THAT A PURPOSE-BUILT, OCEAN-GOING DRILLING WOULD BE USED FOR THE FIRST TIME IN HONG KONG FOR THE WORK IN THE CENTRE OF THE BUSY SHIPPING CHANNELS.

HELICOPTERS WOULD BE USED TO HELP CARRY OUT ISOLATED AREAS OF LANTAU AND MA WAN.

THE

WORK IN THE

INVESTIGATION WORK TO BEGIN THIS MONTH WOULD BE SUPERVISED BY CONSULTING ENGINEERS MOTT MACDONALD HONG KONG LTD FOR THE HIGHWAYS DEPARTMENT, MR LEUNG SAID.

DEMAND FOR MANAGERS AND QUALIFIED WORKERS TO GROW

THE DEMAND FOR PROFESSIONALLY OR TECHNICALLY QUALIFIED WORKERS AND THAT FOR MANAGERS IN PRACTICALLY ALL INDUSTRIES WILL GROW BY SOME 93,000 JOBS OR 26 PER CENT BETWEEN 1989 AND 1996,

ΤΟ THE FINDINGS OF A RECENT STUDY BY THE EDUCATION AND MANPOWER BRANCH.

ACCORDING

THE SECRETARY FOR EDUCATION AND MANPOWER, MR K.Y. YEUNG, SAID LECTURE OF THE CITY THIS TODAY (THURSDAY) AT THE INTERDISCIPLINARY

WHEN HE DISCUSSED EXPANSION OF POLYTECHNIC OF HONG KONG

TERTIARY EDUCATION, QUALITY OF EDUCATION IN SCHOOLS, MEDIUM OF INSTRUCTION THE GOVERNMENT'S ROLE IN DEVELOPING THE SCHOOL SYSTEM.

AND

/MR YEUNG