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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1994

PROCEEDING WHILE.

WAS PREPARATORY AND SITE INVESTIGATION WORK EARTH WORKS WOULD START IN THE DRY MONTHS, MR SO ADDED.

MR SO SAID: "WE HOPE TO OPEN THE GOLF CENTRE TO THE THE END OF NEXT YEAR.

PUBLIC BY

DEVELOPMENT AND PROMOTION THE GOVERNMENT'S POLICY ON THE SPORTS AND PHYSICAL RECREATION WAS THREE-PRONGED, HE SAID.

THEY ARE:

OF

*

TO ENSURE THAT SPORTS AND PHYSICAL RECREATION ARE TO EVERYONE AND AS FAR AS POSSIBLE ON AN EQUAL FOOTING;

AVAILABLE

*

TO LIFT THE PROFILE OF SPORTS THE COMMUNITY; AND

AND

RECREATION PHYSICAL

IN

TO IMPROVE THE PERFORMANCE OF ATHLETES,

MR SO SAID OVER THE PAST THREE DECADES, SQUASH HAD BECOME POPULARISED.

SWIMMING, TENNIS AND

THE

AIR QUALITY REPORT FOR AUGUST

ENVIRONMENTAL

PROTECTION

TODAY DEPARTMENT

(TUESDAY)

RELEASED AIR QUALITY INFORMATION FOR LAST MONTH.

A

SPOKESMAN FOR

THE DEPARTMENT

THE PURPOSE SAID THE PUBLIC INFORMED OF THE AIR ANNOUNCEMENT WAS TO KEEP LEVELS IN THE TERRITORY AND TO EXPLAIN THE MEASUREMENTS.

OF THE QUALITY

RESULTS FROM THE ANNOUNCEMENT CONTAINS MONITORING

MONG KOK,

AND KHAI CHUNG, CENTRAL/WESTERN

REPRESENT WHICH

THREE IMPORTANT

LAND-USE TYPES IN THE TERRITORY:

* LOCATIONS CLOSE TO ROAD TRAFFIC IN BUILT-UP URBAN AREAS,

* COMBINED COMMERCIAL AND RESIDENTIAL DISTRICTS, AND

* DISTRICTS CLOSE TO INDUSTRIAL AREAS.

CONTINUOUSLY

AT

MEASUREMENT

THE DEPARTMENT CURRENTLY MONITORS AIR QUALITY EIGHT STATIONS, INCLUDING THE THREE MENTIONED. SHORT-TERM EXERCISES ARE ALSO UNDERTAKEN AS AND WHERE THE NEED ARISES.

THE REPORTED AIR

NITROGEN DIOXIDE (NO2),

POLLUTANTS INCLUDE SULPHUR DIOXIDE (802), TOTAL SUSPENDED PARTICULATES (TSP) WHICH COMPRISE ALL SIZES of DUST PARTICLES, AND RESPIRABLE SUSPENDED PARTICULATES (RSP) WHICH ARE THE RESPIRABLE FRACTION OF THE DUST.

ALL THESE POLLUTANTS

SUFFICIENT CONCENTRATION.

CAN AFFECT

RESPIRATORY HEALTH IN

/AIR QUALITY