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Lands Department revises Land Sales Programme
The Lands Department today (Thursday) released details of the revised Land Sales Programme for the remainder of the current financial year.
The release followed an earlier meeting between the Director of Lands, Mr RD Pope, and representatives of the Real Estate Developers' Association of Hong Kong.
He explained that it was necessary to revise the original Land Sales Programme because his department had identified three more residential sites for sale in line with the recommendations contained in the Report of the Task Force on Land Supply and Property Prices, and had incorporated the site that failed to sell at the last auction into the adjoining lot, thereby making it a larger and possibly more attractive site.
Mr Pope said there were now 12 sites to be auctioned in March.
He further explained that it was the department's intention to dispose of as much land as possible during the financial year in order to meet the land disposal quota agreed by the Land Commission.
A total of about 10,000 flats are expected to be produced from the 1994/95 Land Sales Programme.
End/Thursday, December 22, 1994
Inquiry into ship collision ordered
The Director of Marine, Mr Allan Pyrke, has ordered a Preliminary Inquiry into the circumstances attending the collision between Hong Kong registered tanker "New World" and Cypriot registered vessel, M V "YA Mawlaya" about 260 nautical miles south west of Lisbon, Portugal yesterday (Wednesday).
In according with Section 51 (1) of the Merchant Shipping Ordinance, Mr Pyrke this (Thursday) morning appointed a surveyor of ship, Mr Kenneth yeomans, to conduct the Preliminary Inquiry.
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