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FRIDAY, MARCH 26, 1993
TWO NEW PROGRAMMES HAVE NOW BEEN PROBATIONERS AND FOR ELDERLY PERSONS.
INTRODUCED FOR YOUNG
LAST YEAR THE EMPLOYMENT SERVICE HELPED MORE THAN 400 CLIENTS
WAY, REPRESENTING AN OVERALL SUCCESS RATE OF ABOUT
IN
THIS
CENT.
60 PER
0
MAN FINED FOR POSSESSING WILD ORCHIDS
MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC OR FLOWER TRADERS FOUND GUILTY OF POSSESSING OR TRADING IN WILD ORCHIDS WITHOUT VALID LICENCES ISSUED BY THE AGRICULTURE AND FISHERIES DEPARTMENT WILL BE LIABLE TO HEAVY FINES.
THE REMINDER WAS ISSUED BY SENIOR CONSERVATION OFFICER, MR CHEUNG MAN-KWONG, AFTER A 44-YEAR-OLD MAN WAS FINED $17,200 PLUS $5,000 COURT COSTS TODAY (FRIDAY) BY A SHA TIN MAGISTRATE.
THE CONVICTED PERSON HAD ALL HIS WILD ORCHIDS CONFISCATED.
MR CHEUNG SAID: "WILD ORCHIDS ARE ENDANGERED PLANT SPECIES PROTECTED UNDER THE ANIMALS AND PLANTS (PROTECTION OF ENDANGERED SPECIES) ORDINANCE IN HONG KONG.
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"UNDER THE ORDINANCE, ANYONE FOUND GUILTY OF ILLEGALLY IMPORTING, EXPORTING OR POSSESSING SUCH WILD ORCHID PLANTS WILL BE LIABLE ON CONVICTION TO A MAXIMUM FINE OF $25,000 AND IN THE CASE OF A SECOND OR SUBSEQUENT OFFENCE A FINE OF $50,000 PLUS SIX MONTHS' IMPRISONMENT," HE SAID.
THE
AGRICULTURE INFORMATION,
CASE WAS UNCOVERED IN JANUARY LAST YEAR WHEN THE AND FISHERIES DEPARTMENT'S OFFICERS, ACTING ON SEARCHED A FLAT IN A PRIVATE HOUSING ESTATE IN TAI PO.
THEY FOUND 86 PIECES OF WILD ORCHIDS WHICH WERE WITHOUT VALID POSSESSION LICENCES. THE OFFENDER WAS SUBSEQUENTLY PROSECUTED.
VARIETY SHOW TO PROMOTE CIVIC EDUCATION
HUMAN
RULE PIAZZA METRO,
AN OUTDOOR VARIETY SHOW TO MARK THE CONCLUSION OF "NEWSRAMA RIGHTS", A 13-EPISODE RADIO PROGRAMME ON HUMAN RIGHTS AND OF LAW, WILL BE HELD ON SUNDAY (MARCH 28) AT THE METROPLAZA, KWAI FONG.
THE PROGRAMME IS A JOINT PRESENTATION BY RADIO TELEVISION KONG (RTHK) AND THE COMMITTEE ON THE PROMOTION OF CIVIC EDUCATION.
HONG
/THE VARIETY
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