XN000022-1994-10-16 — Page 3

SUNDAY, (TOBER 16, 1994

- 2

NEW FEES FOR MARINE FISH CULTURE LICENCES

* * *

THE

FISH CULTURE THE REVISED FEES FOR APPLYING OR RENEWING MARINE

EFFECTIVE

THURSDAY (OCTOBER 20), LICENCES WILL BECOME AGRICULTURE AND FISHERIES DEPARTMENT (AFD) ANNOUNCED TODAY (SUNDAY).

ON

AN AFD SPOKESMAN SAID THE NEW FEES, AT $7.40 PER

ADJUSTED WERE ZONE, MARINE FISH CULTURE ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS OF LICENSING.

OF

TO

SQUARE METRE THE RECOVER

"THE LAST REVISION OF THE LICENSING OR RENEWAL FEES WAS MADE IN

SAID, ADDING THAT THE

ONLY NEW FEES WOULD 1989," THE SPOKESMAN

CENT OF THE OPERATING EXPENSES OF A REPRESENT LESS THAN ONE PER TYPICAL FISH FARM.

FEES HAD BEEN

IN THE

HE POINTED OUT THAT THE CALCULATION OF THE NEW BASED ON A NEW AND FAIRER METHOD WHICH WAS WELCOMED BY PEOPLE TRADE.

REGULATION 1994, THE MARINE FISH

{ AMENDMENT) CULTURE SETS OUT THE REVISED FEES, WAS PUBLISHED AT THE GAZETTE IN JUNE.

WHICH

0

TREATED DRUG ABUSERS ARE USEFUL MEMBERS OF SOCIETY

UNDERGOING

* *

ARE TREATMENT

USEFUL MEMBERS OF SINCLAIR, SAID

DRUG ABUSERS SOCIETY, THE COMMISSIONER FOR NARCOTICS, MR ALASDAIR TODAY (SUNDAY).

ANTI-DRUG CONCERT

HE WAS SPEAKING AT THE TSUEN WAN DISTRICT CUM PRIZE-PRESENTATION CEREMONY HELD AT THE TSUEN WAN PLAZA.

"PEOPLE WHO GET TRAPPED INTO DEPENDENCY ON DRUGS THEY ARE VICTIMS OF THE DRUG DEALERS AND THEY NEED SUPPORT.

"WITH YOUR ASSISTANCE THEY CAN BE REHABILITATED,

ADDED.

NEED HELP.

MR SINCLAIR

TOLERATE TRAFFICKING IN

HOWEVER, THE GOVERNMENT WOULD NOT ILLICIT DRUGS AND WAS DETERMINED TO FIGHT AGAINST IT.

THEIR ACTIVITIES. FIRM ACTION WAS NEEDED TO STAMP OUT POLICE AND THE CUSTOMS AND EXCISE DEPARTMENT WORKED. HARD TO CUT THE SUPPLY, HE SAID.

"DRUG

PUSHERS

EXPLOIT HUMAN WEAKNESS. DESTROYING PEOPLE'S LIVES, HE REMARKED.

"

THE

DOWN

THEY MAKE MONEY BY

"YOUNGSTERS LACK INSIGHT AND MATURITY, THEY MAY HAVE DIFFICULTY IN DISTINGUISHING BAD PEERS FROM GOOD ONES.

"THEY NEED TO DEVELOP CONFIDENCE, SELF-ESTEEM AND THE SKILLS TO RESIST OFFERS OF DRUGS, HE SAID.

+T

"PREVENTION IS BETTER THAN CURE,

"BE

་་

SMART,

THE SAY NO TO DRUGS, CURRENT ANTI-DRUG CAMPAIGN MESSAGE.

COMMISSIONER

REPEATED

THE

/3