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WEDNESDAY, MAY 4, 1994

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"SCHOOLS THEN ASSESS THE CHILDREN'S ACADEMIC PLACING THEM TO CLASSES AT SUITABLE LEVELS," HE ADDED.

STANDARD BEFORE

OFFICES SHOWED

FEEDBACKS OBTAINED BY THE DISTRICT EDUCATION THAT, APART FROM THEIR STANDARD OF ENGLISH, MOST IMMIGRANT CHILDREN DO NOT ENCOUNTER SERIOUS LEARNING OR ADJUSTMENT DIFFICULTIES.

ARE

CLASSES

SCHOOLS PROBLEM,

WHILE THE

EDUCATION

TO HELP THEM TACKLE THE LANGUAGE

ORGANISE COUNSELLING

TO ENCOURAGED DEPARTMENT ALSO RUNS SPECIAL CLASSES.

"FOR

HAVE SPECIAL ADJUSTMENT GUIDANCE

CHILDREN WHO IMMIGRANT THOSE PROBLEMS, THEY ARE GIVEN COUNSELLING AND GUIDANCE BY STUDENT

MR LAM SAID. OFFICERS OR SCHOOL WORKERS,

USE OF PAVING BLOCKS WILL NOT LEAD TO RAT PROBLEM

NOTHING FROM THE AVAILABLE TECHNICAL EVIDENCE SUGGESTS THAT THE MANY COUNTRIES, USE OF PAVING BLOCK CONSTRUCTION, WHICH IS USED IN

JAMES BLAKE, WILL LEAD TO RAT PROBLEMS, THE SECRETARY FOR WORKS, MR SAID TODAY (WEDNESDAY).

KUI-CHUN IN THE

REPLYING TO A QUESTION FROM DR THE HON LAM LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL, MR BLAKE SAID GIVEN THE EXTENSIVE USE OF BLOCK PAVEMENTS IN HONG KONG AND THE FEW INSTANCES OF POSSIBLE DAMAGE DUE TO IT WAS CLEARLY NOT A SERIOUS THE ACTIVITIES OF BURROWING BY RATS, PROBLEM.

SUSPECTED THE PAST TWO

THERE WERE FOUR CASES OF PEDESTRIAN PAVEMENT DAMAGE TO HAVE BEEN CAUSED BY THE ACTIVITIES OF RATS DURING YEARS.

ONLY ONE OF THESE RELATED TO RATS BURROWING INTO THE SAND LAYER то HAVE BREN BENEATH THE PAVEMENT BLOCKS, THE OTHERS ARE BELIEVED CAUSED BY RATS UNDERMINING THE DEEPER UNDERLYING SOIL STRATA.

TO BELIEVE THAT ANY MR BLAKE SAID AS THERE WAS NO REASON

USE OF RELATIONSHIP EXISTED BETWEEN THE ACTIVITIES OF RATS AND THE

THE REGIONAL PAVING BLOCK, THE URBAN SERVICES DEPARTMENT (USD) AND SERVICES DEPARTMENT (RSD) WERE THEREFORE NOT CONSULTED BY THE HIGHWAYS THEIR DEPARTMENT WHEN DECIDING TO ADOPT BLOCK PAVEMENTS ON ACCOUNT OF OTHER VERY IMPORTANT BENEFITS.

TO BURROW USING TRADITIONAL

HE SAID THERE SHOULD BE VERY LITTLE CHANCE FOR RATS FOR PAVEMENTS WHICH WERE PROPERLY LAID, WHETHER BY IN SITU CONCRETE OR BY USING CONCRETE BLOCKS AND WITH CONCRETE STRIPS.

EDGING

DAMAGE TO

THE

THAT POSSIBILITY THERE IS HOWEVER ALWAYS THE PAVED SURFACE, WHICH COULD BE CAUSED BY THE WHEEL LOADING OF ILLEGALLY PARKED VEHICLES FOR EXAMPLE, OR ANY DAMAGE CAUSING AN OPENING VICINITY OF THE PAVEMENT MIGHT RESULT IN RATS REACHING THE BEDDING LAYER AND STARTS BURROWING ACTIVITIES, MR BLAKE SAID,

IN THE UNDERLYING

"THE HIGHWAYS