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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 29, 1992

SALT WATER SYSTEM FOR FLUSHING UNDERWAY

SALT WATER

THE PERCENTAGE OF THE TERRITORY'S POPULATION USING

BK ABOUT FOR FLUSHING WILL

90 PER CENT WHEN THE PROPOSED SALT WATER SYSTEMS ARE TO BE COMPLETED PROGRESSIVELY BY 1995.

THIS WAS STATED BY THE SECRETARY FOR WORKS, MR JAMES BLAKE, A WRITTEN REPLY TO A QUESTION BY THE HON GILBERT LEUNG KAM-TO LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY).

IN IN THE

ΤΟ UNECONOMICAL

10 REMAINING

PER CENT OF

PROVIDE THE

MR BLAKE SAID IT WAS IMPRACTICAL AND

THE SALT WATER FOR FLUSHING FOR POPULATION IN PRESENT CIRCUMSTANCES.

"NEVERTHELESS, THE SITUATION

WILL BE

CLOSELY MONITORED

AND

津申

REVIEWS MADE WHENEVER THERE ARE NEW CIRCUMSTANCES, HE SAID.

MR BLAKE POINTED OUT THAT THE AMOUNT OF FRESH FLUSHING WAS CURRENTLY

PER 33.3

CENT THE WATER. FLUSHING

AMOUNT OF FLUSHING WAS 6.9 PER CENT OF THE TOTAL

OF

WATER USED FOR OF THE TOTAL CONSUMPTION

FOR FRESH WATER USED CONSUMPTION OF POTABLE WATER.

WATER FOR FLUSHING PURPOSES AT PRESENT, THE AREAS USING FRESH

MA ON ARE WAN CHAI, SHAU KEI WAN, AP LEI CHAU, POKFULAM, SHA TIN AND

TOWN, YUEN LONG, SHAN NEW TOWN, TSEUNG KWAN O NEW TOWN, TAI PO NEW SHEUNG SHUI, FANLING, SAI KUNG AND THE OUTLYING ISLANDS.

KUNG AND THE WILL BE

EXCEPT FOR YUEN LONG, SHEUNG SHUI, FANLING, SAI OUTLYING ISLANDS, SALT WATER SUPPLY SYSTEMS ARE PROPOSED AND IMPLEMENTED IN A FEW YEARS' TIME.

29 SPEAK IN LEGCO DEBATE ON IMPORTATION OF LABOUR * * * * *

A TOTAL OF 29 LEGISLATIVE COUNCILLORS DEBATED FOR FOUR

LABOUR IN THE LEGISLATIVE HALF HOURS ON A MOTION ON IMPORTATION OF COUNCIL YESTERDAY (WEDNESDAY).

AND A

MOTION

MOVED

WHICH

URGED

THE

AND

TO

II

THE

BY THE HON PANG CHUN-HOI GOVERNMENT

'GENERAL LABOUR IMPORTATION SCHEME" TO REVIEW THE SHELVE THE SCHEME FOR THE TIME BEING WAS DEFEATED.

THE SECRETARY FOR EDUCATION AND MANPOWER, MR JOHN ON BEHALF OF THE GOVERNMENT.

ON ANOTHER MOTION,

MOVED

ELECTIONS.

SPOKE MEMBERS EIGHT SELINA CHOW, ON THE APPOINTMENT OF A SELECT COMMITTEE TO ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE 1991 LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL WAS PASSED.

CHAN, SPOKE

BY THE REVIEW

HON THE

THE MOTION

/IN ADDITION