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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20, 1994

TWO MORE OUTREACHING SOCIAL WORK TEAMS DUE TO SET UP

TWO

OUTREACHING

SOCIAL WORK

ADDITIONAL

TEAMS ESTABLISHED BY JUNE THIS YEAR ONE IN TIN SHUI WAI, YUEN THE OTHER IN MA ON SHAN, SHA TIN,

WILL

BE

LONG,

AND

THESE WILL BRING THE TOTAL TO 30 THE TARGET NUMBER LAID IN THE SOCIAL WELFARE WHITE PAPER.

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DOWN

IN

SHIU TONG A WRITTEN REPLY TO A QUESTION BY DR THE HON TANG IN THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY), THE SECRETARY FOR HEALTH

THE MRS

STEERING COMMITTEE ON ELIZABETH WONG, SAID AND WELFARE, OUTREACHING SOCIAL WORK SERVICE WAS CURRENTLY CONDUCTING A REVIEW

AND WHETHER EXAMINE THE DEMAND FOR AND EFFECTIVENESS OF THIS SERVICE, IT SHOULD BE EXPANDED.

TO

"THIS WILL TAKE INTO ACCOUNT THE NEEDS OF AREAS WITH A POPULATION," SHE ADDED.

GROWING

OUTREACHING

IN ESTABLISHED RELATIVELY LARGER

AREAS YOUTH

THE

SOCIAL WORK TEAMS ARE

A WHICH HAVE A HIGHER POPULATION DENSITY, POPULATION AND HIGHER JUVENILE CRIME RATES.

THE GENERAL SERVICE BOUNDARY USED FOR EACH TRAM IS A POPULATION OF 100,000.

AT PRESENT, THERE ARE FOUR TEAMS IN THE NEW TERRITORIES WEST THREE IN TUEN MUN AND ONE IN YUEN LONG.

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GOVT SPENT $3,491 MILLION ON PROPERTY IN 1993/94

$1,989 MILLION

THE GOVERNMENT SPENT A TOTAL OF $3,491 MILLION TO PURCHASE RESIDENTIAL ACCOMMODATION AND $1,502 MILLION TO BUY OFFICE ACCOMMODATION IN 1993/94 ON THE OPEN MARKET.

WAI

-

WONG PING- IN A WRITTEN REPLY TO A QUESTION BY THE HON SAMUEL

THE IN THE LEGISLATIVE

SECRETARY FOR COUNCIL, THE ACTING TREASURY, MR K C KWONG, SAID THE RESIDENTIAL ACCOMMODATION COMPRISED AREA OF 618,508 SQUARE FEET, 856 UNITS HAVING A TOTAL GROSS FLOOR WHILST THE OFFICE ACCOMMODATION TOTALLED 390,657 SQUARE FEET GROSS.

KWONG MR

SAID AS A RESULT OF THE OFFICE PURCHASES, 165,000 SQUARE FEET GROSS OF LEASED OFFICE ACCOMMODATION HAD BEEN GIVEN UP AND PUT BACK ONTO THE MARKET.

THAT "WE ESTIMATE

GIVEN THE

THESE PURCHASES HAVE HAD NO SIGNIFICANT RESIDENTIAL OR OFFICE IMPACT ON THE PRESENT SUPPLY AND DEMAND FOR

OF TOTAL VOLUME ACCOMMODATION,

MARKET TRANSACTIONS IN 1993/94," HE SAID.

SUPPLY IN

HE SAID IT WOULD NOT BE NECESSARY TO AUGMENT LAND 1994/95 TO CATER FOR THE PURCHASES BY THE GOVERNMENT IN 1993/94.

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