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MONDAY, JANUARY 27, 1992

FOR

URBAN COMMUNITY, "IN RESPONSE TO THE NEEDS OF A RAPIDLY GROWN

TO

RESPONSIBILITY ACCEPT THE GOVERNMENT DECIDED SOME YEARS AGO

MODERN AND INTEGRATED WHOLESALE THE CONSTRUCTION AND MANAGEMENT OF MARKET COMPLEXES."

SHE

THAT AS A

THE

OUT POINTED

GOVERNMENT STEP. FIRST

AS A QUICK CONSTRUCTED TWO TEMPORARY MARKETS ON WESTERN RECLAMATION

PRESSING NEED TO REMOVE AND ADDRESSING THE AND INTERIM MEANS OF ACCOMMODATE THE OLD POULTRY AND FRUIT MARKETS AT KENNEDY TOWN.

"TODAY, WE SEE THE FORMAL OPENING OF PHASE

WHOLESALE FOOD MARKET, FRUIT, EGGS AND FRESHWATER FISH,

PROVIDING

*

PERMANENT SHE SAID.

I OF TRADING

THE WESTERN FOR FACILITIES

THE NEW FACILITIES COMPRISE 254 MARKET

PARKING

SPACES

AND CONTAINER VEHICLE 195,000 TONNES OF FOODSTUFFS A YEAR.

STALLS AND 204 LORRY DESIGNED TO HANDLE

AND

ARE

THERE ARE ALSO THREE PURPOSE DESIGNED MEET THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE DIFFERENT TRADES.

BANKS,

*

AND EQUIPPED PIERS TO

KIOSK,

A

A REFRESHMENT ANCILLARY FACILITIES SUCH AS RESTAURANT, TRADE OFFICES AND GENERAL AMENITIES ARE ALSO PROVIDED.

MARKET WOULD ALSO MRS CHAN NOTED THAT THE OPENING OF THE NEW

THAT THE GOVERNMENT WOULD BENEFIT RESIDENTS OF WESTERN DISTRICT IN BE BETTER PLACED

THE ENVIRONMENTAL, OBSTRUCTION TO RESOLVE TRAFFIC CONGESTION PROBLEMS THAT HAD BEEN ASSOCIATED WITH SOME OF OLD MARKETS NOW RELOCATED IN THE NEW BUILDING.

SHE SAID PHASE II OF THE MARKET WAS ALREADY UNDER ON THE SITE OF THE FORMER TEMPORARY FRUIT MARKET.

AND

THE

CONSTRUCTION

WILL PROVIDE PERMANENT "IT 18 DUB FOR COMPLETION IN 1994 AND TRADING FACILITIES FOR POULTRY AND IMPORTED VEGETABLES.

WHOLESALE FACILITIES ON HONG

IN ENVIRONMENT

SHE

"THAT WILL FURTHER IMPROVE THE KONG ISLAND AND THE GENERAL SAID.

WESTERN

DISTRICT,

ALSO PRESENT AT TODAY'S OPENING CEREMONY WAS AGRICULTURE AND FISHERIES, DR LAWRENCE LEE.

DR LEE SAID THE

THE DIRECTOR OF

EARLIER IN HIS SPEECH,

WELL-DESIGNED AND STRATEGICALLY LOCATED MARKET WAS THE FIRST PERMANENT WHOLESALE 'MARKET FOR FRESH FOODSTUFFS TO BE BUILT BY THE GOVERNMENT,

HE SAID: "IT

REPRESENTS

THE CULMINATION

OF MANY YEARS OF MARKETING PLANNING AND WORK TO GROUP TOGETHER THE DIFFERENT WHOLESALE TRADES UNDER ONE ROOF TO FORM A MARKET COMPLEX.

++

YEARS IN THE

HE THANKED THOSE WHO HAD PARTICIPATED OVER THE PLANNING, DESIGN AND REALISATION OF THE MARKET COMPLEX; AS WELL AS THE MARKET TENANTS, THE TRANSPORTERS AND THE BUYERS FOR THEIR HELPING TO MAKE THE MARKET A SUCCESS.

SUPPORT IN

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