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GUANGDONG WATER

CONSERVANCY

& HYDROPOWER

ENGINEERING

DEVELOPMENT CO. LTD

NOTE

14

ASHLEY Rv

14.3.90

APCO:

TSIM SHA TSUI

TUESDAY, JUNE 19, 1990

CONTRAVENING

TERMS OR

CONDITIONS OF A

SPECIFIED

PROCESS LICENCE

APCO: AIR POLLUTION CONTROL ORDINANCE WPCO: WATER POLLUTION CONTROL ORDINANCE OLPO: OZONE LAYER PROTECTION ORDINANCE

CONSUMERS REPORTING WEIGHING MALPRACTICES

* * *

4.000

IST

CONSUMERS HAVE BECOME MORE

AWARE OF THEIR RIGHT TO REPORT MEASURES, ACCORDING то FIGURES MALPRACTICES CONCERNING WEIGHTS AND RELEASED BY THE CUSTOMS AND EXCISE DEPARTMENT.

WAS

IN

THE PRINCIPAL TRADE CONTROLS OFFICER OF THE DEPARTMENT'S TRADING STANDARDS INVESTIGATION BUREAU, MR ANDREW WONG, SAID THIS

USING INACCURATE REFLECTED IN THE NUMBER OF COMPLAINTS ABOUT TRADERS

GONE UP FROM SIX WEIGHING AND MEASURING INSTRUMENTS, WHICH HAD JANUARY TO 29 IN MAY THIS YEAR.

MONTHS LAST YEAR,

Fi

"WE RECEIVED A TOTAL OF 84 COMPLAINTS IN THE FIRST FIVE OF THIS YEAR, COMPARED TO ONLY 37 DURING THE SAME PERIOD HE SAID TODAY (TUESDAY).

HAD SO

HE SAID THE DEPARTMENT

FAR RECEIVED 178 COMPLAINTS ON JANUARY SINCE THE WEIGHTS AND MEASURES ORDINANCE CAME INTO EFFECT 1, 1989.

"OF THESE COMPLAINTS, SUBSTANTIATED AND THE OTHERS ARE STILL UNDER INVESTIGATION.

58

WERE

81 SUBSTANTIATED,

WERE

NOT

M

"THE DEPARTMENT HAS PROSECUTED 21 TRADERS, WHO HAVE BEEN A TOTAL OF $50,050, HR SAID.

FINED

THE TWO MOST RECENT CASES INVOLVED A HAWKER AND A SCRAP DEALER,

FOR RESPECTIVELY

USING WHO WERE FINED $1,000 AND $2,000

INACCURATE

WEIGHING INSTRUMENTS.

THE DEFENDANTS, MS KAN MUI, A MOBILE FRUIT HAWKER, AND MR

FLOOR, KA-KEUNG, OF HUNG KEE METAL AND WASTE PAPER ON THE GROUND SHUN NING ROAD, SHAM SHUI PO, BOTH PLEADED GUILTY TO THE CHARGES.

SUNG

513

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