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MINUTES.
The Minutes of the meeting of the Council held on 3rd September, 1957, were confirmed.
PAPERS.
THE CHAIRMAN laid upon the table the following paper:
Report on the work of the Urban Council and Urban Services Department for the month of September, 1957.
He said: I would like to add a few words more to paragraph 5 on page 2 dealing with the demarcation of the area at Laichikok Beach prohibited to boats. Although it comes rather late in the season it appears that there has now been evolved a satisfactory method both of demarcating the prohibited area and of preventing boats from entering it. Instead of Dan buoys the method used is that of bamboo floats about three feet long connected to each other by wire at intervals of ten feet to form a sort of boom. This type of marking buoy is more prominent and the wire provides a fairly effective obstruction to rowing boats. This equipment was all made in the departmental workshop and was completed and put into use on September 2nd.
I now propose to invite the Bathing Beaches Select Committee to consider whether this method should be used next season at all beaches where a prohibited area has been set aside.
QUESTIONS.
DR. P. F. Woo asked the following question
"Imported ice cream has been on sale for some time, would the Chairman
(a) indicate the quantity that has been imported;
(b) explain what steps have been taken to supervise the sale of this ice-cream,
and
(c) give the assurance that the people employed to handle this ice-cream are all vaccinated and inoculated?"
THE CHAIRMAN tabled the following written reply :-
"The answers to the questions are as follows :-
(a) About 8,500 lbs., all from two well-known sources in the United Kingdom.
(b) Qualified Food Inspectors have investigated the storage facilities, which are considered satisfactory in all respects. Retail distribution is entirely from shops holding permits under the appropriate by-laws and is in unbroken containers. A number of check samples have been taken, all of which have been satisfactory.
(c) Persons employed in retailing have been vaccinated and inoculated against enteric fever."
Mr. A. de O. SALES asked the following questions :—
“What measures of control and supervision are exercised by the Council over the stalls and hawkers in Nga Tsin Wai Road and the cross-roads in that area?”
"Is the Chairman not aware that residents in that area are much dissatisfied with the dirty and difficult conditions obtaining there?"
THE CHAIRMAN tabled the following written reply :-
"There are no hawker fixed pitches licensed for Nga Tsin Wai Road itself, although in some of the cross-roads there are licensed pitches or stalls which are controlled by departmental staff under the Council's by-laws. Obstruction in Nga Tsin Wai Road by pedlar hawkers, whether licensed or unlicensed, or by unauthorized hawker stalls, is at present a matter falling to be dealt with by the Police. The difficulties of the situation are of course greatly accentuated by the closure of this road, which has compressed the hawkers into a much reduced area.
It is appreciated that the present conditions must cause dissatisfaction to the residents of the area, just as they do in several other places where similar conditions of hawker congestion arise. The Nga Tsin Wai Road area presents one aspect of a general
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MINUTES.
The Minutes of the meeting of the Council held on 3rd September, 1957, were confirmed.
PAPERS.
THE CHAIRMAN laid upon the table the following paper:
Report on the work of the Urban Council and Urban Services Department for the month of September, 1957.
He said: I would like to add a few words more to paragraph 5 on page 2 dealing with the demarcation of the area at Laichikok Beach prohibited to boats. Although it comes rather late in the season it appears that there has now been evolved a satisfactory method both of demarcating the prohibited area and of preventing boats from entering it. Instead of Dhan buoys the method used is that of bamboo floats about three feet long connected to each other by wire at intervals of ten feet to form a sort of boom. This type of marking buoy is more prominent and the wire provides a fairly effective obstruction to rowing boats. This equipment was all made in the departmental workshop and was completed and put into use on September 2nd.
I now propose to invite the Bathing Beaches Select Com- mittee to consider whether this method should be used next season at all beaches where a prohibited area has been set aside.
QUESTIONS.
DR. P. F. Woo asked the following question
"Imported ice cream has been on sale for some time,
would the Chairman
(a) indicate the quantity that has been imported; (b) explain what steps have been taken to supervise
the sale of this ice-cream,
and
(c) give the assurance that the people employed to handle this ice-cream are all vaccinated and inoculated?"
THE CHAIRMAN tabled the following written reply :-
"The answers to the questions are as follows :-
(a) About 8,500 lbs., all from two well-known
sources in the United Kingdom.
(b) Qualified Food Inspectors have investigated the storage facilities, which are considered satis- factory in all respects. Retail distribution is entirely from shops holding permits under the appropriate by-laws and is in unbroken containers. A number of check samples have been taken, all of which have been satisfactory.
(c) Persons employed in retailing have been vac- cinated and inoculated against enteric fever."
Mr. A. de O. SALES asked the following questions :—
“What measures of control and supervision are exercised by the Council over the stalls and hawkers in Nga Tsin Wai Road and the cross-roads in that area?”
"Is the Chairman not aware that residents in that area are much dissatisfied with the dirty and difficult con- ditions obtaining there?"
THE CHAIRMAN tabled the following written reply :-
"There are no hawker fixed pitches licensed for Nga Tsin Wai Road itself, although in some of the cross- roads there are licensed pitches or stalls which are controlled by departmental staff under the Council's by-laws. Obstruction in Nga Tsin Wai Road by pedlar hawkers, whether licensed or unlicensed, or by unauthorized hawker stalls, is at present a matter falling to be dealt with by the Police. The diffi- culties of the situation are of course greatly accen- tuated by the closure of this road, which has com- pressed the hawkers into a much reduced area.
It is appreciated that the present conditions must cause dissatisfaction to the residents of the area, just as they do in several other places where similar con- ditions of hawker congestion arise. The Nga Tsin Wai Road area presents one aspect of a general
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