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MR. SALES: But which department of Government, Mr. Chairman?
CHAIRMAN: It is being handled in the Secretariat.
MR. BLAKER: Mr. Chairman, can I be given any indication as to how active this active consideration is? When may a solution to the predicament the Government appears to consider exists in this matter be resolved?
CHAIRMAN: I am afraid not, Mr. BLAKER. It has been going on for quite some time.
MR. LO TAK-SHING: Will the solution to this problem, should the solution eventually be provided, involve the amendment of any existing licence given to any particular operator?
CHAIRMAN: I am sorry, but I must rule the question out of order.
MOTIONS.
(1) MR. SOLOMON RAFEEK, CHAIRMAN OF THE CEMETERIES, CREMATORIA AND FUNERAL PARLOURS SELECT COMMITTEE, moved the following Motion:
"RESOLVED under By-law 10(1) of the Public Cemeteries By-laws, that the Director of Urban Services be empowered to exhume and remove the human remains of persons from the graves specified in the following public cemeteries and to dispose of the same by burial, cremation or otherwise as the Director may think fit.
CemeterySectionsYear of Burial (1) Wo Hop Shek Cemetery, Fanling, New Territories.All graves in Sections A and B and including those in private lots.1964 (2) Sandy Ridge Cemetery, Lo Wu, New Territories.All graves in the Government Urn Section.1964 (3) Sandy Ridge (Urn) Cemetery, Lo Wu, New Territories.(a) Section T.He said: Mr. Chairman, as Chairman of the Cemeteries, Crematoria and Funeral Parlours Select Committee, I rise to move the motion standing in my name.
The purpose of the motion is to empower the Director of Urban Services to carry out a routine exhumation programme for 1971 in order to provide space for future burials in the cemeteries concerned. If the motion is passed, notice of the intended exhumation will be published in the usual way in the Government Gazette and in the Chinese press, so that any person who wishes to arrange for private exhumation, may do so.
I beg to move.
MR. PETER P. F. CHAN: Mr. Chairman, I beg to second.
CHAIRMAN: The Motion has been moved and seconded, does any Member wish to speak? I will take a vote on the Motion.
The question was put.
The motion was carried unanimously.
(2) MR. R. H. LOBO, CHAIRMAN OF THE HAWKER MANAGEMENT SELECT COMMITTEE, moved the following Motion:
"RESOLVED that any public officer for the time being holding, or discharging the functions of, any of the offices specified in the schedule hereto be authorized to exercise the powers conferred by Section 86(1) of the Public Health and Urban Services Ordinance, Chapter 132.
SCHEDULE.
Senior Hawker Liaison Officer (Hong Kong). Senior Hawker Liaison Officer (Kowloon). Hawker Liaison Officer.He said: Mr. Chairman, I rise to move the Motion standing in my name.
The purpose of this Motion is, I think, already clear and, in effect, it merely confirms the delegation of powers which have in the past been held by Hawker Licensing staff.
One point which I feel I must make is that the provision of these powers to our staff is very necessary in view of the increasing obstruction which is being caused on our streets and pavements by hawker goods and paraphernalia. We are unlikely to be able to make any real improvement in the environmental conditions of our city until we have persuaded people that streets and pavements are not provided as free storage areas. In particular, hawker barrows, abandoned stalls, boxes and baskets add to the already congested state of our urban areas and
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MR. SALES: But which department of Government, Mr. Chairman? CHAIRMAN:-It is being handled in the Secretariat.
MR. BLAKER-Mr. Chairman, can I be given any indication as to how active this active consideration is? When may a solution to the predicament the Government appears to consider exists in this matter be resolved?
CHAIRMAN:-I am afraid not, Mr. BLAKER. It has been going on for quite some time.
MR. LO TAK-SHING:--Will the solution to this problem, should the solution eventually be provided, involve the amendment of any existing licence given to any particular operator?
CHAIRMAN:-I am sorry, but I must rule the question out of order.
MOTIONS.
(1) MR. SOLOMON RAFEEK, CHAIRMAN OF THE CEMETERIES, CREMA- TORIA AND FUNERAL PARLOURS SELECT COMMITTEE, moved the follow- ing Motion:-
"RESOLVED under By-law 10(1) of the Public Cemeteries By- laws, that the Director of Urban Services be empowered to exhume and remove the human remains of persons from the graves specified in the following public cemeteries and to dispose of the same by burial, cremation or otherwise as the Director may think fit.
Cemetery
(1) Wo Hop Shek Cemetery, Fanling, New Territories.
(2) Sandy Ridge Cemetery,
Lo Wu, New Territories.
(3) Sandy Ridge (Urn)
Cemetery, Lo Wu, New Territories.
Sections
Year of
Burial
All graves in Sections A and B and including those in private lots.
1964
1964
1964
All graves in the Government Urn Section.
1968
(a) Section T.
(b) Roman Catholic Private Lot.
He said:Mr. Chairman, as Chairman of the Cemeteries, Crema- toria and Funeral Parlours Select Committee, I rise to move the motion standing in my name.
The purpose of the motion is to empower the Director of Urban Services to carry out a routine exhumation programme for 1971 in order If the to provide space for future burials in the cemeteries concerned. motion is passed, notice of the intended exhumation will be published
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in the usual way in the Government Gazette and in the Chinese press, so that any person who wishes to arrange for private exhumation, may do so.
I beg to move.
MR. PETER P. F. CHAN:-Mr. Chairman, I beg to second.
CHAIRMAN: -The Motion has been moved and seconded, does any Member wish to speak? I will take a vote on the Motion.
The question was put.
The motion was carried unanimously.
(2) MR. R. H. LOBO, CHAIRMAN OF THE HAWKER MANAGEMENT SELECT COMMITTEE, moved the following Motion:
“RESOLVED that any public officer for the time being holding, or discharging the functions of, any of the offices specified in the schedule hereto be authorized to exercise the powers conferred by Section 86(1) of the Public Health and Urban Services Ordinance, Chapter 132.
SCHEDULE.
Senior Hawker Liaison Officer (Hong Kong).
Senior Hawker Liaison Officer (Kowloon).
Hawker Liaison Officer.
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He said:-Mr. Chairman, I rise to move the Motion standing in my name.
The purpose of this Motion is, I think, already clear and, in effect, it merely confirms the delegation of powers which have in the past been held by Hawker Licensing staff.
One point which I feel I must make is that the provision of these powers to our staff is very necessary in view of the increasing obstruction which is being caused on our streets and pavements by hawker goods and paraphernalia. We are unlikely to be able to make any real im- provement in the environmental conditions of our city until we have persuaded people that streets and pavements are not provided as free storage areas. In particular, hawker barrows, abandoned stalls, boxes and baskets add to the already congested state of our urban areas and
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