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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 13, 1993

AT PRESENT, PERMANENT ROAD REINSTATEMENT

IS BEING UNDERTAKEN BY THE HIGHWAYS DEPARTMENT TO REPLACE TEMPORARY REINSTATEMENT AFTER COMPLETION OF UTILITY OPENINGS.

MR KWEI SAID THIS HAD OFTEN GIVEN THE IMPRESSION THAT THE ROAD WAS RE-OPENED AGAIN.

"CURRENTLY SOME

UTILITY COMPANIES AND GOVERNMENT UTILITY DEPARTMENTS HAVE ALREADY AGREED TO CARRY OUT PERMANENT REINSTATEMENT IN FOOTWAYS. THIS ACCOUNTS FOR ABOUT 40 PER CENT OF ALL UTILITY OPENINGS," HE SAID.

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FATAL WORK ACCIDENTS STATISTICS

THERE WERE THREE FATAL ACCIDENTS INVOLVING WORKERS FALLING THROUGH LIFT SHAFTS ON CONSTRUCTION SITES LAST YEAR, COMPARED WITH FIVE SUCH ACCIDENTS EACH IN 1990 AND 1991.

IN

A WRITTEN REPLY TO A QUESTION BY THE HON LAU CHIN-SHEK IN THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY), THE SECRETARY FOR EDUCATION AND MANPOWER, MR JOHN CHAN, SAID THERE WAS ONE FATAL ACCIDENT INVOLVING BULLDOZERS AND EXCAVATORS ON CONSTRUCTION SITES IN EACH OF THE PAST THREE YEARS.

IN ADDITION, THERE WAS ONE FATAL ACCIDENT CAUSED BY ACCIDENTAL CUTTING OF CABLES AND GAS PIPES DURING ROAD WORKS IN 1990. THE FOLLOWING TWO YEARS SAW NO SUCH ACCIDENT.

IN 1990 AND 1991, THERE WAS ONE ACCIDENT EACH INVOLVING COLLAPSE OF TOWER CRANES.

THE ACCIDENT IN 1990 RESULTED IN ONE WORKER BEING KILLED THREE OTHERS BEING INJURED. NO INJURY WAS REPORTED IN THE INCIDENT, MR CHAN ADDED.

THE

AND

1991

CHANGES TO APPROVED ESTIMATES OF EXPENDITURE TABLED

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A SUMMARY OF ALL CHANGES ΤΟ THE APPROVED ESTIMATES EXPENDITURE FOR THE SECOND QUARTER OF THE FINANCIAL YEAR 1992/93 TABLED IN THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY).

OF WAS

EXPLAINING THE CHANGES, THE SECRETARY FOR THE TREASURY, MR K Y YEUNG, SAID SUPPLEMENTARY PROVISION OF $181.9 MILLION WAS APPROVED.

OR

HE SAID IT WAS FULLY OFFSET, EITHER BY SAVINGS UNDER THE SAME OTHER HEADS OF EXPENDITURE, OR BY THE DELETION OF FUNDS UNDER THE ADDITIONAL COMMITMENTS SUBHEADS.

/DURING THE

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