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TUESDAY, AUGUST 30, 1994

PARKING METERS SET UP IN TO KWA WAN

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PARKING METERS WILL BE INSTALLED AT 12 PARKING SPACES ON THURSDAY (SEPTEMBER TONG STREET, TO KWA WAN FROM 10 AM TRANSPORT DEPARTMENT ANNOUNCED.

AT SHEK 1},

THE

VEHICLES OTHER THAN

CYCLES.

SIX OF THEM ARE FOR TWO-HOUR PARKING FOR MEDIUM AND HEAVY GOODS VEHICLES, BUSES, MOTORCYCLES AND PEDAL THE OTHER SIX ARE ONE-HOUR METERS FOR GOODS VEHICLES.

THESE PARKING SPACES ARE OPERATING FROM 8 AM TO

EXCEPT SUNDAYS AND PUBLIC HOLIDAYS.

MIDNIGHT DAILY

THE CHARGE IS $2 PER VEHICLE FOR EVERY 30 MINUTES.

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136 VIETNAMESE RETURN HOME

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A GROUP OF 136 VIETNAMESE MIGRANTS TODAY (

(TUESDAY) RETURNED VIETNAM UNDER THE VOLUNTARY REPATRIATION PROGRAMME OF THE UNITED NATIONS HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR REFUGEES.

COMPRISING 51 MEN, 35 WOMEN, 31 BOYS AND 19 THE 214TH BATCH TO GO BACK UNDER THE PROGRAMME.

GIRLS, THEY WERE

THE GROUP BROUGHT TO 4.169 THE TOTAL NUMBER OF VIETNAMESE MIGRANTS WHO HAD RETURNED VOLUNTARILY THIS YEAR, AND TO 42,782 THE TOTAL NUMBER OF RETURNEES SINCE THE PROGRAMME STARTED IN MARCH 1989.

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WATER STORAGE FIGURE

STORAGE IN HONG KONG'S RESERVOIRS AT 9 AM TODAY (TUESDAY) STOOD AT 96.95 PER CENT OF CAPACITY OR 566.388 MILLION CUBIC METRES.

THIS TIME LAST YEAR THE RESERVIORS CONTAINED 464.194 MILLION CUBIC METRES OF WATER, REPRESENTING 79.2 PER CENT OF CAPACITY.

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