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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1994

TO BE

USED.

ANY THE

"WE WILL CONTINUE TO EXPLORE WHETHER THERE ARE OTHER SUITABLE LOCATIONS WHERE

ALLOWED

SUGGESTIONS SPOKESMAN SAİD.

BE MULTICYCLES COULD MADE BY MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC WILL BE CONSIDERED,"

TO

STEER ΤΟ ENSURE

IN ADDITION, NO PERSON WILL BE ALLOWED TO HIRE A MULTICYCLE A CHILD UNDER 11 YEARS OF AGE OR PERMIT ANY CHILD TO RIDE OR TO A MULTICYCLE, UNLESS THE CHILD IS ACCOMPANIED BY AN ADULT THAT CHILDREN MULTICYCLES ARE BEING LOOKED AFTER BY ADULTS.

PROVIDES

AND

THE ROAD TRAFFIC (AMENDMENT) (NO.2) BILL 1994, WHICH LEGISLATIVE

TO EXTEND CONTROL OVER USE OF BICYCLES AMENDMENTS TO TRICYCLES

MUTLICYCLES, WAS PASSED INTO LAW IN THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL ON OCTOBER 12 WITH EFFECT FROM OCTOBER 28 THIS YEAR.

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ROYAL NAVY SAYS FAREWELL TO FORMER HOME

THE THREE SHIPS OF THE HONG KONG SQUADRON WILL SAIL OUT OF FORMER NAVAL BASIN AT THE PRINCE OF WALES BARRACKS FOR THE LAST ON TUESDAY (NOVEMBER 1), THE DAY THAT THE AREA IS HANDED OVER TO HONG KONG GOVERNMENT.

THE

TIME THE

THE BASIN WAS HOME TO THE SQUADRON UNTIL THE MOVE OF HMS TAMAR AND NAVAL OPERATIONS TO STONECUTTERS ISLAND IN MAY 1993.

THE PATROL CRAFT HMS PLOVER, HMS STARLING AND HMS PEACOCK WILL BE THE LAST EVER NAVAL VESSELS TO USE THE BASIN, WHICH WILL EVENTUALLY DISAPPEAR TO BECOME PART OF THE WAN CHAI-CENTRAL RECLAMATION, ENDING 90 YEARS OF HISTORY FOR THE ROYAL NAVY AND A FAMOUS LANDMARK IN CENTRAL.

THE BASIN HAS PLAYED HOST TO INNUMERABLE ILLUSTRIOUS SHIPS OF THE ROYAL NAVY AND MANY VISITING FOREIGN NAVAL VESSELS HAVE HAD THE PRIVILEGE OF BERTHING THERE ON VISITS TO HONG KONG IN THE PAST 90 YEARS.

THE EARLIEST REFERENCE TO THE NAVAL YARD ON HONG KONG ISLAND APPEARS IN A MEMORANDUM OF JULY 1856 CONCERNED WITH THE FURTHER TRANSFER OF LAND FROM THE MILITARY TO THE ADMIRALTY, THE LAND INVOLVED WOULD SEEM TO BE THAT ON WHICH ADMIRALTY MASS TRANSIT RAILWAY NOW STANDS.

REQUIRING SPACE FOR A MODERN DOCKYARD, THE ONLY POSSIBLE DIRECTION WAS SEAWARD SO, IN 1899, IT WAS DECIDED TO CARRY THROUGH A MASSIVE RECLAMATION SCHEME.

THE TOTAL AREA FINALLY CREATED WAS OVER 39 ACRES AND TWO NOVEL FEATURES WERE PLANNED: A GRAVING DOCK AND A FLOATING BASIN.

THE GRAVING DOCK NO LONGER EXISTS, BUT THE BASIN HAS BEEN IN CONTINUOUS USE UNTIL BEING HANDED OVER TO THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT FOR ITS OWN RECLAMATION PROGRAMME ON NOVEMBER 1, 1994.

/DESIGNED TO