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TUESDAY, JUNE 21, 1994

PHASE II OF WESTERN WHOLESALE FOOD MARKET OPENS

MOST

WAS OFFICIALLY THIS (TUESDAY)

PHASE II OF THE WESTERN WHOLESALE FOOD MARKET, ONE OF THE

SOUTH IN

EAST ASIA, MODERN WHOLESALE FOOD MARKETS OPENED BY LEGISALTIVE COUNCILLOR MR ERIC LI KA-CHEUNG MORNING.

MANAGEMENT

OCCCUPIES

UNDER AN

BUILT AT A COST OF $220 MILLION, PHASE II OF THIS MARKET

DEPARTMENT'S THE ARGICULTURE AND FISHERIES AREA OF TWO HECTARES.

SPEAKING AT THE

MARKET'S OPENING

CEREMONY, MR

LI

SAID

ITS

COMPLETION UNDERLINED THE TURNING OF A NEW PAGE IN THE DEVELOPMENT THE WESTERN DISTRICT ON HONG KONG.

OF

MARKET COMPLEX

FOR THE

MR LI STRESSED THAT THE WESTERN WHOLESALE FOOD WAS PART OF

THE GOVERNMENT'S AMBITIOUS PROGRAMME REPROVISIONING OF WHOLESALE MARKETS IN THE TERRITORY.

HE

EVER

WE SAW THE "TWO AND A HALF YEARS AGO IN LATE 1991, SAID:

WESTERN MARKET. SIX MONTHS COMPLETION OF PHASE I OF THE

AGO, WE WITNESSED THE COMPLETION OF THE BIGGEST WHOLESALE MARKET COMPLEX BUILT IN HONG KONG, WHICH IS THE CHEUNG SHA WAN WHOLESALE FOOD

PHASE I.

—

MARKET

"SO FAR, THE BILLION. HE NOTED.

GOVERNMENT HAS SPENT

A

OF TOTAL

ABOUT $1.1

THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCILLOR, HOWEVER, REITERATED THAT

ANOTHER LARGE THE END OF THE STORY BECAUSE FOOD MARKET HAD ALREADY BEEN IN THE PIPELINE WHOLESALE MARKET'S PHASE II.

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WAN

WAS NOT SCALE MODERN WHOLESALE

THE CHEUNG SHA

UPON COMPLETION, MR LI SAID, THE CHEUNG SHA REPROVISION THE EXISTING YAU MA TEI FRUIT MARKET AND WAN TEMPORARY WHOLESALE POULTRY MARKET.

WAN MARKET WOULD THE CHEUNG SHA

CLEAR "ALL THESE ARE

COMMITMENT TO ENSURING FACILITIES FOR THE EFFICIENT, FRESH FOOD PRODUCE IN HONG KONG," HE ADDED.

INDICATIONS OF THE GOVERNMENT'S FIRM ADEQUATE PROVISION OF WHOLESALE MARKETING

HYGIENIC AND ORDERLY WHOLESALING

OF

ADDRESSING ALSO

THE OPENING

CEREMONY,

THE

DIRECTOR

OF

LAWRENCE LEE, SAID THE NEWLY-OPENED AGRICULTURE AND FISHERIES, DR PHASE II OF THE WESTERN WHOLESALE FOOD MARKET WAS TO DEPARTMENT'S TEMPORARY WHOLESALE POULTRY NEARBY AND THE URBAN SERVICES DEPARTMENT IN KENNEDY TOWN.

REPROVISION THE MARKET PREVIOUSLY LOCATED WHOLESALE VEGETABLE MARKET

DR LEE POINTED OUT

THAT PHASE

II

OCCUPYING A TOTAL FLOOR AREA 6,400 SQUARE STALLS, 207 VEGETABLE

IS A TWO-STOREY BUILDING METRES, WITH 14 POULTRY

LORRIES STALLS AND 143 PARKING SPACES FOR

AND

A CONTAINER VEHICLES.

IN ADDITION,

THERE ARE

TWO PIERS EQUIPPED WITH HYDRAULIC CRANES FOR OFFLOADING PRODUCE AT THE WATERFRONT.

/HE SAID: