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The first phase of computerising the town lot land registers in the New Territories, which began in May 1994, will be completed this month. In fact, computer-assisted land registration and search services in respect of the computerised town lot land registers in a number of NT Land Registries are available since February this year.

As regards the Direct Access Services (DAS) which enables customers to make on-line land search of the urban land registers through computer terminals at their own offices, over 270 subscribers are enjoying this fast and convenient service since its introduction in September last year. The DAS facility has been progressively extended to the computerised land registers in the New Territories since March this

year.

The Registry's new Performance Pledges are set out in a pamphlet published today. Another information pamphlet on 'How to conduct searches of land records' has also been produced. Copies of these pamphlets are available to the public at any of the Land Registry Offices and district offices of the Home Affairs Department.

End/Tuesday, August 1, 1995

Energy statistics annual report on sale

The Census and Statistics Department has published the Hong Kong Energy Statistics Annual Report 1994, which describes the situation of energy supply and demand in Hong Kong.

The report contains comprehensive statistical information relating to different forms of energy, including oil products, coal products, electricity and gas.

It also includes an overall energy balance which summarises the sources and uses of different forms of energy, and depicts their relationships in the energy transformation processes.

Regarding various oil products, statistics on list prices, storage capacity, tank stock, imports, re-exports, retained imports, average unit values of imports, and quantity of sales by type of user are presented in the report. Figures on imports, re- exports, retained imports and average unit values of imports of selected coal products are given.