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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1994

QUESTION':

RECENT GO-TO-SILENCE IS INTERPRETED BY OR IMAGE OF A LAME DUCK OF THE BRITISH

MR GOVERNOR, YOUR SOMEONE AS THE GESTURE COLONY..

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GOVERNOR: FIRST OF ALL, I, IN THE LAST WEEK, HAVE PROPERLY GIVEN FOUR то SILENCE OR FIVE SPEECHES IN PUBLIC WHICH HASN'T SEEMED VERY MUCH ME. SECONDLY, I AM ACCUSTOMED TO BEING ACCUSED AT THE SAME TIME, SOMETIME DURING THE SAME PRESS CONFERENCE, SOMETIME IN THE SAME EDITION OF A NEWSPAPER, OF ON THE.ONE HAND DOING TOO MUCH IN THE LAST 1,000 DAYS OF BRITISH SOVEREIGNTY, SECONDLY, OF BEING A LAME DUCK. I AM CERTAINLY NOT THE LATTER. I DON'T THINK THERE ARE ANY LAME DUCKS IN HONG KONG BUT THERE ARE CERTAINLY A FEW SICK PARROTS. THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

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FINDINGS ON KWUN LUNG LAU LANDSLIDE ACCEPTED

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THE SECRETARY FOR WORKS, MR JAMES BLAKE, SAID THE THE INDEPENDENT REVIEW PUBLISHED TODAY (WEDNESDAY) ON LAU LANDSLIDE INVESTIGATION WERE ACCEPTED.

THE

POSSIBLE.

RECOMMENDATIONS

FINDINGS THE KWUN LUNG

OF

WOULD BE IMPLEMENTED AS

QUICKLY

AS

то A NUMBER MASONRY

MR BLAKE SAID THE TRAGIC INCIDENT CAME ABOUT DUE OF KEY EVENTS IN COMBINATION, INCLUDING THE FACT THAT THE OLD WALL WAS APPRECIABLY THINNER THAN USUAL FOR WALLS OF THIS TYPE.

"GIVEN THE TOPOGRAPHY, GEOLOGY. CLIMATE DEVELOPMENT IN HONG KONG, AN EFFECTIVE PROGRAMME OF IS REQUIRED TO KEEP THE RISK OF SLOPE FAILURE LEVEL.

AND

DENSITY

OF

SLOPE MANAGEMENT

AT AN ACCEPTABLY LOW

FINDINGS AND

REVIEW "THE KWUN LUNG LAU BEING LOOKED INTO AS A MATTER OF URGENCY.

RECOMMENDATIONS

ARE

ITS REVIEW ON THE SLOPE SAFETY.

"THE GOVERNMENT HAS IN PARALLEL CONDUCTED POLICY AND IMPLEMENTATION STRATEGY OF MEANS TO IMPROVE IT WILL SUBMIT ITS RECOMMENDATIONS TO EXCO BEFORE THE END OF THE YEAR.

FOR THE

WHEN

CORONER

"IN THE MEANTIME, WE CANNOT COMMENT ON RESPONSIBILITY TRAGEDY WHICH WILL COME WITHIN THE JURISDICTION OF THE THE DEATH INQUEST COMMENCES TOMORROW, MR BLAKE ADDED.

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