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TUESDAY, APRIL 7, 1992

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QUARRYING INDUSTRY FORGES CLOSE TIES WITH CHINA

*

TODAY

(TUESDAY) INDUSTRIES

OF

THE SECRETARY FOR WORKS, MR JAMES BLAKE, SAID HONG KONG'S QUARRYING INDUSTRY IS ONE OF THE FIRST LOCAL

WITH

IN CHINA TO FORGE CLOSE COMMERCIAL LINKS UNTAPPED ROCK RESOURCES CLOSE TO HONG KONG.

SPEAKING AT THE INSTITUTE OF

BLAKE MR

AGGREGATES

THE DEVELOPMENT

QUARRYING CONFERENCE

EARLY 1980S,

AND

EXHIBITION,

SAID FROM THE

EVER-INCREASING

SUPPLIES OF

HAD BEEN OBTAINED FROM NEWLY ESTABLISHED QUARRIES IN THE SPECIAL ECONOMIC ZONES OF CHINA.

HALF THE

AT PRESENT, AROUND

TERRITORY'S DEMAND FOR QUARRY PRODUCTS ARE MET FROM MODERN AND HIGHLY MECHANISED QUARRIES LOCATED MOSTLY ON UNINHABITED ISLANDS IN THE SOUTH CHINA SEA TO THE SOUTH OF HONG KONG.

WEST AND

THAT AN PRODUCTS EXPERIENCED

**IT WOULD SEEM REASONABLE TO ASSUME, THEREFORE, FOR QUARRY INCREASING PROPORTION OF THE TERRITORY'S DEMAND WILL BE MET FROM THE CHINESE ISLAND OPERATIONS MANAGED BY COMPANIES BASED IN HONG KONG.

"WE BELIEVE THIS WILL BE PARTICULARLY SO IN

PRODUCTS TO THE SUPPLY OF AGGREGATES AND ROCK DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY PROJECTS," HE ADDED.

THE CASE OF THE PORTS AND AIRPORT

ANNUAL FOOD HYGIENE CAMPAIGN TO START IN JUNE

THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH'S ANNUAL TERRITORY-WIDE CAMPAIGN WILL BEGIN IN JUNE.

FOOD HYGIENE

A ANNOUNCING THIS TODAY (TUESDAY), DEPARTMENT SPOKESMAN SAID THE THREE-MONTH CAMPAIGN, UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE URBAN COUNCIL AND FOOD HYGIENE REGIONAL COUNCIL, AIMS TO PROMOTE THE ADOPTION OF GOOD PRACTICES SO AS TO MINIMISE THE CHANCE OF FOOD-BORNE ILLNESSES.

DURING THE PERIOD, 24 SEMINARS ON "FOOD TALKING POINT" WILL BE HELD AT CONVENIENTLY-LOCATED THE TERRITORY FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOOD TRADE, STAFF OF LICENSED

PREMISES, COOKED

IS OUR SAFETY VENUES HROUGHOUT INCLUDING LICENSEES AND FOOD STALLS AND CANTEENS.

A TALK, A SLIDE

THE EDUCATIONAL SEMINARS WILL EACH COMPRISE SHOW, A FILM ON FOOD HYGIENE AND AN OPEN DISCUSSION.

PARTICIPANT CAMPAIGN

INFORMATION MATERIALS WILL BE DISTRIBUTED AND EACH RECEIVE A CERTIFICATE OF ATTENDANCE AT THE END OF THE

WILL PERIOD.

/THE SPOKESMAN