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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1991

THE VARIOUS FORMS OF ADR ALL INVOLVE A NEUTRAL PERSON WHO HELPS THE PARTIES REACH A NEGOTIATED SETTLEMENT AVOIDING COSTLY ARBITRATION OR COURT CASES.

MR CORSER STATED THAT AS PUBLIC BUILDING PROJECTS HAD BECOME LARGER AND MORE COMPLEX, THERE WOULD BE A GROWTH IN DISPUTES BETWEEN THE CONTRACTORS AND THE GOVERNMENT,

WOULD AVOID

THE USE OF THESE RESOLUTION PROCESSES

A DETERIORATION OF WORKING RELATIONSHIPS AND COST OVER-RUNS ON GOVERNMENT PROJECTS.

IN CONCLUSION, MR CORSER SAID ONE OF THE MORE INTERESTING AND UNUSUAL SERVICES PROVIDED BY HIS DEPARTMENT WAS THE RESTORATION OF ANTIQUITIES UNDERTAKEN BY THE PROPERTY SERVICES BRANCH WHICH WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE MAINTENANCE AND MANAGEMENT OF PUBLIC BUILDINGS.

IN

THE BUILDINGS WHICH HAVE BEEN RESTORED BY THE BRANCH INCLUDE KUN TING STUDY HALL AND TAJ FU TAI IN YUEN LONG; THE MAN MO TEMPLE TAI PO, AND THE LAW UK FOK MUSEUM IN CHAI WAN.

HE EMPHASISED THE COMMUNITIES WITH A LINK TO BELONGING AND CONTINUITY.

IMPORTANCE OF CONSERVATION TO PROVIDE THEIR PAST AND ΤΟ INSTIL A SENSE OF

SECRETARY FOR WORKS INSPECTS EFFLUENT TUNNEL PROJECT

NEWLY-APPOINTED

JAMES

WORKS, SECRETARY FOR

MR THE

BLAKE, ΤΟ AN IMPORTANT EFFLUENT TODAY (TUESDAY) PAID HIS FIRST SITE VISIT

AS TATE'S UNDERNEATH

CAIRN

PART TUNNEL

PROJECT

OF HIS SINCE HE FAMILIARISATION PROGRAMME TO THE WORKS GROUP OF DEPARTMENTS TOOK OFFICE LAST MONTH.

BORING

ACCOMPANIED BY THE DIRECTOR OF DRAINAGE SERVICES, MR SIU CHUEN, THE SECRETARY WAS BRIEFED INSIDE THE TUNNEL THAT THE INTEGRAL PART OF THE TOLO HARBOUR EFFLUENT TOLO HARBOUR ACTION PLAN.

PROJECT WAS AN EXPORT SCHEME UNDER THE

GOVERNMENT'S

THE SCHEME IS BEING IMPLEMENTED AT AN ESTIMATED

COMMITMENT ΤΟ $880 MILLION AS THE QUALITY OF TOLO HARBOUR.

COST OF OVER IMPROVE THE WATER

SHA

AT PRESENT, TREATED SEWAGE EFFLUENT IS DISCHARGED FROM THE

INTO TOLO IIARBOUR. THIS HAS

TIN AND TAI PO SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS

BEEN ONE OF THE NUTRIENT SOURCES TO THE NEARBY WATERS.

THE SCHEME HAS

MR BLAKE LEARNT THAT TO REMEDY THE SITUATION, BEEN DESIGNED TO INTERCEPT THE EFFLUENT AT THE TWO TREATMENT WORKS AND MORE CAPABLE THAN TO DIVERSE THE FLOW TO VICTORIA HARBOUR, WHICH IS TOLO HARBOUR IN RECEIVING THE NUTRIENT LOAD OF THE EFFLUENTS.

/THE SCHEME