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SATURDAY, APRIL 14, 1990

IMPROVEMENTS TO PO TOI PIER PLANNED

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IMPROVEMENT WORKS HAD BEEN PLANNED TO UPGRADE THE

PIER ON PO TOI ISLAND TO WITHSTAND ROUGH SEA WAVES AND TO FACILITATE THE BERTHING OF FLOATING CLINIC AND POLICE LAUNCHES EVEN AT LOW TIDE, THE ACTING ISLANDS DISTRICT OFFICER, MISS JENNIFER CHAN, SAID TODAY (SATURDAY).

"THE ISLANDS DISTRICT OFFICE IS ACTIVELY WORKING ON THE IMPROVEMENT PLAN AND SEEKING FUNDS, AMOUNTING TO $6 MILLION, FROM ROYAL HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB FOR THE PROJECT, SHE SAID.

OFFICIATING AT A CEREMONY TO CELEBRATE RENOVATION WORK FOR THE TIN HAU TEMPLE ON PO ΤΟΙ RECALLED THAT THE JOCKEY CLUB AGREED TWO YEARS AGO MILLION FOR MINOR IMPROVEMENT WORKS OF THE PIER.

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THE COMPLETION OF ISLAND, MISS CHAN TO ALLOCATED $1.5

AFTER DETAILED CONSIDERATIONS OF THE PROJECT BY THE DISTRICT OFFICE, RECONSTRUCTION WORKS OF A LARGER SCALE WAS PLANNED SO THAT THE PIER WOULD BECOME MORE USEFUL AND DURABLE, SHE SAID.

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MISS CHAN ALSO TOLD THE ISLANDERS THAT $0.7 MILLION HAD BEEN ALLOCATED TO RE-INSTALL TWO ELECTRICITY GENERATORS AND TO REBUILD POWER GENERATING ROOM ON THE ISLAND IN THE CURRENT FINANCIAL YEAR. IS EXPECTED TO BE COMPLETED BY JULY THIS YEAR.

"AFTER THE COMPLETION OF THESE TWO PROJECTS, LIVELIHOOD OF PO TOI ISLANDERS WILL BE MUCH IMPROVED, MISS CHAN SAID.

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THE PO TOI TIN HAU TEMPLE, WHICH WAS CONSECRATED TODAY, HAS A HISTORY OF OVER 150 YEARS AND IS REGARDED AS A PRECIOUS HERITAGE OF THE ISLAND.

AS THE TEMPLE HAD BECOME DILAPIDATED OVER THE YEARS, THEN FORMED A COMMITTEE TO RAISE FUNDS FOR RENOVATION.

VILLAGERS

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WITH THE HELP OF THE DISTRICT OFFICE, THE COMMITTEE OBTAINED SUBSIDIES FOR THE PROJECT FROM THE CHINESE TEMPLES COMMITTEE, WORKS WAS CARRIED OUT SMOOTHLY DURING THE PAST WINTER MONTHS.