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DR. P. F. Woo asked the following question:-
Is the Chairman aware that there is no electricity supply in the Hawkers Control Force Training Quarters at Brick Hill, which has consequently made the regular training extremely difficult? As the training quarters are very adjacent to the Police Training School, would the Chairman investigate the possibility of extending the supply of electricity from the Police Training School to the Hawkers Control Force Training Quarters?
THE CHAIRMAN replied as follows:
I am indeed aware that this training camp is inconvenienced by reason of having no electricity supply. Government has already been approached regarding the installation of a mains supply or an individual generator, but I have been informed that, since the camp is a temporary one, expenditure of this nature is not considered economical. If the Supplementary Hawker Report is adopted, with its proposals for doubling the size of the Hawker Control Force, the training camp will clearly be needed for a longer period. It may then be possible for Government to reconsider the matter.
DR. R. H. S. LEE asked the following question:-
Will the Chairman state what interim steps have been taken to remedy the offensive smell resulting from the overloading of the incinerator at the Kennedy Town Slaughterhouse? In view of the very long time required for the realization of a new slaughterhouse, has the Department given consideration to the feasibility of other alternative methods of carcass disposal to meet the frequent complaints of this public nuisance?
THE CHAIRMAN replied as follows:-
An average of 12,000 lbs. of condemned meat and dead poultry has to be disposed of daily. Roughly 9,000 lbs. of it is processed in the By-Products Plant at the Kennedy Town slaughterhouse. The balance, together with carcases infected with anthrax, is incinerated at the Ma Tau Kok slaughterhouse and, only if unavoidable, at the Kennedy Town slaughterhouse.
There have been complaints from time to time about smell and smoke from the incinerator at the Kennedy Town slaughterhouse. Normally, when this incinerator is used, every precaution is taken to minimize nuisance by avoiding slow burning materials and by regulating the loads. But there are exceptional circumstances. As much as 20,000 lbs. of material for disposal has been recorded on a single day. On other occasions, there is little choice in the quality of material to go into the incinerator. The main factor is to dispose of the condemned materials. There would be a real health risk if they were not disposed of at once.
Again, the Kennedy Town slaughterhouse is used as seldom as possible. During the last four months, it was in operation for 6 days in May, 5 days in June, 14 days in July and 13 days in August.
Members are aware that the present slaughterhouses are due to be reprovisioned in the next three years. It would be uneconomical to reconstruct the incinerator at the Kennedy Town slaughterhouse at this stage. But it may not be necessary for nearby residents to put up with the smell and smoke for another three years. Investigations are now being made to see whether it would be possible to run a second shift at the By-Products Plant, so as to avoid incinerating any carcases, except those infected with anthrax which must be burnt at once. If this scheme is feasible, extra staff for the purpose will have to be asked for in the 1963/64 Estimates.
DR. LEE:-Apart from the anthrax infected carcases, Mr. Chairman, has the question of disposing of the redundant spoiled meat by means of burial at sea or land been considered?
CHAIRMAN:-I regret, Sir, that I cannot give you an answer on that point now, but I will be glad to take the matter up with you later.
DR. R. H. S. LEE asked the following question:
In view of the very unsatisfactory state of affairs resulting from the prolonged resiting of squatters on the pavements of Kowloon, particularly those in the Lai Chi Kok area, can the Commissioner for Resettlement give some indications as to when they might be resettled?
THE COMMISSIONER FOR RESETTLEMENT replied as follows:-
Clearances of squatters are normally only undertaken where it is necessary to free the land for development. Priority is given to those clearances which free land for housing, social services, etc. Such is the demand for land for
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DR. P. F. Woo asked the following question:-
Is the Chairman aware that there is no electricity supply in the Hawkers Control Force Training Quarters at Brick Hill, which has consequently made the regular training As the training quarters are very
extremely difficult?
adjacent to the Police Training School, would the Chair- man investigate the possibility of extending the supply of electricity from the Police Training School to the Hawkers
Control Force Training Quarters?
THE CHAIRMAN replied as follows:
I am indeed aware that this training camp is inconvenienced by reason of having no electricity supply. Government has already been approached regarding the installation of a mains supply or an individual generator, but I have been informed that, since the camp is a temporary one, expendi- ture of this nature is not considered economical. If the Supplementary Hawker Report is adopted, with its proposals for doubling the size of the Hawker Control Force, the training camp will clearly be needed for a longer period. It may then be possible for Government to re- consider the matter.
DR. R. H. S. LEE asked the following question:-
Will the Chairman state what interim steps have been taken to remedy the offensive smell resulting from the overload- ing of the incinerator at the Kennedy Town Slaughter- house? In view of the very long time required for the realization of a new slaughterhouse, has the Department given consideration to the feasibility of other alternative methods of carcass disposal to meet the frequent com- plaints of this public nuisance?
THE CHAIRMAN replied as follows:-
An average of 12,000 lbs. of condemned meat and dead poultry has to be disposed of daily. Roughly 9,000 lbs. of it is processed in the By-Products Plant at the Kennedy Town slaughterhouse. The balance, together with carcases in fected with anthrax, is incinerated at the Ma Tau Kok slaughterhouse and, only if unavoidable, at the Kennedy Town slaughterhouse.
There have been complaints from time to time about smell and smoke from the incinerator at the Kennedy Town slaughterhouse. Normally, when this incinerator is used.
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every precaution is taken to minimize nuisance by avoiding slow burning materials and by regulating the loads. But there are exceptional circumstances. As much as 20,000 lbs. of material for disposal has been recorded on a single day. On other occasions, there is little choice in the quality of material to go into the incinerator. The main factor is to dispose of the condemned materials. There would be a real health risk if they were not disposed of
at once.
Again, the Kennedy Town slaughterhouse is used as seldom as possible. During the last four months, it was in opera- tion for 6 days in May, 5 days in June, 14 days in July and 13 days in August.
Members are aware that the present slaughterhouses are due to be reprovisioned in the next three years. It would be uneconomical to reconstruct the incinerator at the Kennedy Town slaughterhouse at this stage. But it may not be necessary for nearby residents to put up with the smell and smoke for another three years. Investigations are now being made to see whether it would be possible to run a second shift at the By-Products Plant, so as to avoid incinerating any carcases, except those infected with anthrax which must be burnt at once. If this scheme is feasible, extra staff for the purpose will have to be asked for in the 1963/64 Estimates.
DR. LEE:-Apart from the anthrax infected carcases, Mr. Chair- man, has the question of disposing of the redundant spoiled meat by means of burial at sea or land been considered?
CHAIRMAN:-I regret, Sir, that I cannot give you an answer on that point now, but I will be glad to take the matter up with you later.
DR. R. H. S. LEE asked the following question:
In view of the very unsatisfactory state of affairs resulting from the prolonged resiting of squatters on the pavements of Kowloon, particularly those in the Lai Chi Kok area, can the Commissioner for Resettlement give some indications as to when they might be resettled?
THE COMMISSIONER FOR RESETTLEMENT replied as follows:-
Clearances of squatters are normally only undertaken where it is necessary to free the land for development. Priority is given to those clearances which free land for housing, social services, etc. Such is the demand for land for
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