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"Though employment of prisoners, not profits and dividends, are our 'bottom line' we have recognised that if we do not give the customer wants he wants, when he wants it at a price he finds reasonable, we will lose customers.

"And if we lose customers, we do not get sufficient job orders to employ prisoners. In other words, we face the same pressures to compete, and the same reasons for doing it, as every other commercial and industrial organisation in Hong Kong," Mr Lai said.

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Laying of submarine cable systems at Lantau Island

Authorisation has been given for the Hong Kong Telecommunication Limited to lay four submarine cables at Tong Fuk, Lantau Island.

The project aims at providing more international channel capacity to meet the rapid growth in international traffic demand.

Works will start this month for completion by the end of October. They will be carried out within an area of about 360 hectares of foreshore and sea-bed starting from Tong Fuk Beach southwards to Hong Kong border.

The extent of the area affected is described in a notice published in the Government Gazette today (Friday).

Any person who considers that his interest, right or easement in or over the foreshore and sea-bed involved will be injuriously affected may deliver a written claim for compensation to the Director of Lands before July 5, 1997.

He should state in his submission the sum of money which he is willing to accept in full and final settlement of his claim and should submit such particulars which he possesses to substantiate his claim.

The notice (in both English and Chinese) together with the related plan can be seen at the Lands Department's Survey and Mapping Office, 14th floor, Murray Building, Garden Road, Hong Kong (where copies can be purchased on order), the Islands District Office, 20th floor, Harbour Building, 38 Pier Road, Central, and Mui Wo Sub-office of the Islands District Office, ground floor, Mui Wo Government Offices, 2 Ngan Kwong Wan Road, Mui Wo, Lantau Island.

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