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is now in Category B of the Public Works Programme. A schedule of accommodation is being drawn up and it is the intention to proceed with the project as early as possible.
A site at Cape Collinson has been proposed on which to reprovision the existing Funeral Depot in Oil Street on the Island. Preliminary investigation indicates that the site may not be altogether suitable as it is too far out on the east of the Island. A project to reprovision the Depot will be included in the Public Works Programme as soon as a site has been finalized.
MR. RAYMOND KAN:- In paragraph 3, it says the project will be commenced as early as possible. Is there any possibility of rough indication of the date, 3 years, 5 years, ten years?
CHAIRMAN:- Sorry; I am unable to give any indication, Mr. KAN.
MR. KAN:- As far as Hong Kong is concerned, does it mean that as of now a site has not even been found? Does it mean that there won't be any funeral parlour under the control of this Council for many many years to come, may be, say, five or seven years?
CHAIRMAN:- Again, this is the same question you've asked, Mr. KAN. As soon as we get the site, we will press on with the project.
MR. KAN:- Thank you.
(3) MRS. E. ELLIOTT asked the following question:-
(a) Does the Resettlement Department have powers to prosecute hawkers for obstruction outside the limits of resettlement estates. If so, under what regulations do they have these powers?
(b) Is the Chiap Hua Building, San Po Kong, a private factory building, within the bounds of any resettlement estate. If so, which? If not, why have summonses been issued by the Resettlement Department to hawkers on the pavement outside that factory?
MR. PETER C. K. CHAN, CHAIRMAN OF THE RESETTLEMENT SELECT COMMITTEE, replied as follows:-
I think Mrs. ELLIOTT may be referring to the Chiap Kin Industrial Building in San Po Kong.
The pavement alongside that building lies within the boundaries of the San Po Kong Resettlement Factory Estate.
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The operators of two cooked food stalls and one light refreshment stall have been prosecuted recently by an officer of the department for obstructing that pavement.
The prosecutions were carried out for alleged offences against Section 4A of the Summary Offences Ordinance by an officer of the Resettlement Department formally authorized to do so by the Director of Public Prosecutions.
MRS. ELLIOTT:- Could the Chairman of the Select Committee tell me he mentions two cooked food stalls and one light refreshment stall- can he tell me how many food stalls are there altogether on the same pavement?
MR. CHAN:- As far as the information I have got, there are two cooked food stalls and one light refreshment stall, but I think at certain hours there may be some illegal cooked food stalls there in the evening and I, myself, when I go to ward duty, I do pass along there and those mobile stalls they come and go now and again.
MRS. ELLIOTT:- Mr. Chairman, may I ask the Chairman of the Select Committee if he answered the question without seeing the situation, because none of the stalls are mobile?
MR. CHAN: I think this question will require some very detailed investigation. I would be very happy, if Mrs. ELLIOTT has no objection, to this matter being discussed in detail in the Select Committee of which she is a member.
MRS. ELLIOTT:- Mr. Chairman, I ask the question intending to get detailed information, may I have the detailed information as early as possible?
MR. CHAN:- That will be done subject to what the Commissioner for Resettlement may have to say.
MOTIONS
CHAIRMAN:- Ladies and gentlemen, we now resume debate of the following motion moved by Mr. BERNACCHI and seconded by Mr. FORSGATE at the meeting of the Council held on 10th October.
"RESOLVED that standing orders 1 and 9(1) be amended to read:
'1. Language.
(1) The proceedings of the Council shall be conducted in accordance with this standing order.
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is now in Category B of the Public Works Programme. A schedule of accommodation is being drawn up and it is the intention to proceed with the project as early as possible.
A site at Cape Collinson has been proposed on which to reprovision the existing Funeral Depot in Oil Street on the Island. Preliminary investigation indicates that the site may not be altogether suitable as it is too far out on the east of the Island. A project to reprovision the Depot will be included in the Public Works Programme as soon as a site has been finalized.
MR. RAYMOND KAN:-In paragraph 3, it says the project will be commenced as early as possible. Is there any possibility of rough indication of the date, 3 years, 5 years, ten years?
CHAIRMAN:-Sorry; I am unable to give any indication, Mr. KAN.
MR. KAN:—As far as Hong Kong is concerned, does it mean that as of now a site has not even been found? Does it mean that there won't be any funeral parlour under the control of this Council for many many years to come, may be, say, five or seven years?
CHAIRMAN :-Again, this is the same question you've asked, Mr. KAN. As soon as we get the site, we will press on with the project.
MR. KAN:-Thank you.
(3) MRS. E. ELLIOTT asked the following question:-
(a) Does the Resettlement Department have powers to prosecute hawkers for obstruction outside the limits of resettlement estates. If so, under what regulations do they have these powers?
(b) Is the Chiap Hua Building, San Po Kong, a private factory building, within the bounds of any resettlement estate. If so, which? If not, why have summonses been issued by the Resettlement Department to hawkers on the pavement outside that factory?
MR. PETER C. K. CHAN, CHAIRMAN OF THE RESETTLEMENT SELECT COMMITTEE, replied as follows:-
I think Mrs. ELLIOTT may be referring to the Chiap Kin
Industrial Building in San Po Kong.
The pavement alongside that building lies within the bound-
aries of the San Po Kong Resettlement Factory Estate.
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The operators of two cooked food stalls and one light refresh- ment stall have been prosecuted recently by an officer of the department for obstructing that pavement.
The prosecutions were carried out for alleged offences against Section 4A of the Summary Offences Ordinance by an officer of the Resettlement Department formally authorized to do so by the Director of Public Prosecu- tions.
MRS. ELLIOTT:-Could the Chairman of the Select Committee tell me he mentions two cooked food stalls and one light refreshment stall-can he tell me how many food stalls are there altogether on the same pavement?
MR. CHAN:-As far as the information I have got, there are two cooked food stalls and one light refreshment stall, but I think at certain hours there may be some illegal cooked food stalls there in the evening and I, myself, when I go to ward duty, I do pass along there and those mobile stalls they come and go now and again.
MRS. ELLIOTT:-Mr. Chairman, may I ask the Chairman of the Select Committee if he answered the question without seeing the situation, because none of the stalls are mobile?
MR. CHAN: I think this question will require some very detailed investigation. I would be very happy, if Mrs. ELLIOTT has no objection, to this matter being discussed in detail in the Select Committee of which she is a member.
MRS. ELLIOTT:-Mr. Chairman, I ask the question intending to get detailed information, may I have the detailed information as early as possible?
MR. CHAN:-That will be done subject to what the Commissioner for Resettlement may have to say.
MOTIONS
CHAIRMAN:-Ladies and gentlemen, we now resume debate of the following motion moved by Mr. BERNACCHI and seconded by Mr. FORSGATE at the meeting of the Council held on 10th October.
"RESOLVED that standing orders 1 and 9(1) be amended to
read:
'1.
Language.
(1) The proceedings of the Council shall be con-
ducted in accordance with this standing order.
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