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SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1991

THE COMPANY WAS LATER PROSECUTED

AND WAS GIVEN THE MAXIMUM

FINE OF $10,000 BY A KWUN TONG MAGISTRATE.

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"WORK ON REST DAYS BY WOMEN AND YOUNG PERSONS IN INDUSTRY 18 STRICTLY FORBIDDEN, SENIOR LABOUR OFFICER (PROSECUTIONS) MR TSANG KIN-WOO STRESSED.

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"THE REST DAY SHOULD NOT BE CHANGED UNLESS THE EMPLOYER NOTIFIED THE LABOUR DEPARTMENT 48 HOURS BEFORE CHANGES COME INTO OPERATION, MR TSANG SAID.

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"SUCH CHANGES SHOULD NOT BE MADE MORE THAN ONCE A ΜΟΝΤΗ, EXCEPT WITH THE WRITTEN PERMISSION OF THE DEPARTMENT, HE ADDED.

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GEOLOGICAL SURVEY MEMOIR FOR SAI KUNG AND CLEAR WATER BAY PUBLISHED

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A MEMOIR DESCRIBING THE GEOLOGICAL HISTORY OF THE EASTERN PART OF HONG KONG HAS JUST BEEN PUBLISHED BY THE GEOTECHNICAL CONTROL OFFICE (GCO) OF THE CIVIL ENGINEERING SERVICES DEPARTMENT.

ENTITLED "THE GEOLOGY OF SAI KUNG AND CLEAR WATER

BAY", THE MEMOIR HAS DELINEATED ROCK FORMATIONS OF THE AREA WHICH ARE STILL VISIBLE TODAY.

THE PRINCIPAL GOVERNMENT GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEER, DR A.W. MALONE SAID IN THE ROCKS OF THE AREA, EVIDENCE OF THE MASSIVE VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS WHICH TOOK PLACE AT THE BEGINNING OF THE CRETACEOUS PERIOD, SOME 135 MILLION YEARS AGO, COULD BE SEEN.

"THERE IS EVIDENCE TO SUGGEST THAT THESE ERUPTIONS MAY HAVI BEEN 40 TIMES GREATER THAN THE 1980 ERUPTIONS OF MOUNT ST HELENS VOLCANO IN THE UNITED STATES, AN EVENT WHICH RELEASED A SIMILAR AMOUNT OF ENERGY AS A 10,000 MEGATONNE EXPLOSION," DR MALONE SAID.

THE ERUPTIONS PRODUCED LAVA FLOWS AND HUGE CLOWING ASH CLOUDS AND WERE FOLLOWED BY MASSIVE LANDSLIDES.

BETWEEN 130 AND 160 MILLION YEARS AGO, TWO PLATES OF THE EARTH'S CRUST COLLIDED ALONG THE LINE OF TODAY'S COAST, THE PACIFIC PLATE SLIDING DOWN BENEATH THE KURASIAN EXPLAINED.

OR SBOMENTS SOUTH CHINA PLATE, HE

IT WAS THE HEAT GENERATED BY THE FRICTION BETWEEN THESE SLIDING PLATES THAT MELTED THE ROCKS AND CREATED THE VOLCANIC ACTIVITY.

DR MALONE NOTED THAT BY 120 MILLION YEARS AGO, THE PLATES HAD CEASED TO MOVE AGAINST EACH OTHER AND VOLCANIC ACTIVITY STOPPED.

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