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(1) MR. JOHN MACKENZIE asked the following question (in English):
Is the Council satisfied with public response to the Festival of the Asian Arts; and is it intended to have a Third Festival and a Second International Film Festival in 1978?
Are any new features to be included in these events?
MR. F. K. HU, CHAIRMAN OF THE CITY HALL AND ENTERTAINMENTS SELECT COMMITTEE, replied as follows (in English):—
It is intended to have a Second International Film Festival and a Third Festival of Asian Arts in 1978.
I am pleased to say that the Council is most satisfied with the excellent public response to the Festival of Asian Arts. As I outlined at the Annual Conventional Debate, Festival ticket sales have reached 98% of capacity for two years running now. This means that, during the Second Festival, which was attended by no less than 370 artists from overseas in addition to those from Hong Kong, over 31,000 people attended the various performances at the City Hall during the two-week period of the Festival, whilst the very popular free open air entertainment programme at various venues in Hong Kong and Kowloon attracted well over 100,000 people. The five Festival exhibitions, of wide overseas and local content, were visited by 159,000 people, thus bringing total public participation in the Festival to well over a quarter of a million people. There is clearly considerable public support for the Festival of Asian Arts and for this excellent response the Council is most gratified.
In reply to the second part of the question, the Second International Film Festival will, in addition to an expanded main programme of international films and selections of films produced in Hong Kong, feature two other special programmes: first, a tribute to James WONG Howe, being a commemorative photographic and film exhibition of the late renowned Chinese cinematographer of Hollywood, and, second, Hong Kong Cinema Retrospective, being a study of Cantonese films in the '50s and their sociological background.
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The programme content of the Third Festival of Asian Arts has still to be finalized; it is clear, however, that this Festival will be run on lines broadly similar to the Second Festival.
(2) MISS CECILIA L. Y. YEUNG asked the following question (in Cantonese):-
Does the Urban Services Department send Health Inspectors to investigate restaurants after general office hours. If so, what time of the night do they carry out their duties? Does the Department notice or discover that some shops' nature of business change into unauthorized or unlicensed restaurant which are run by the owners themselves or by others through renting or letting and restored to their original nature of trading during the day. What action is taken to prevent, correct or stop such unauthorized business?
DR. P. C. WONG, Vice-CHAIRMAN OF THE FOOD HYGIENE SELECT COMMITTEE, replied as follows (in English):-
The first part of the question concerns the inspection of restaurants by Health Inspectors of the Urban Services Department after office hours and the times at which night inspections are carried out. Health Inspectors do conduct regular night visits to licensed restaurants in order to ensure that legal requirements and licensing conditions are observed by the licensees after general office hours. The times at which licensed restaurants are inspected outside normal office hours vary considerably with the type of business and also sometimes with the season of the year. Night-clubs and bars can best be inspected late at night and most other restaurants at popular eating times. In summer, restaurants at bathing beaches and swimming pool complexes have to be checked on weekends, Sundays and public holidays when the bulk of their business takes place. In short, the hours of inspection after normal office hours vary and are normally adjusted to suit the needs of each individual case in the light of practical experience.
The second part of the question concerns the existence of unlicensed restaurants in premises which are used for
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HONG KONG URBAN COUNCIL
QUESTIONS
(1) MR. JOHN MACKENZIE asked the following question (in English):
Is the Council satisfied with public response to the Festival of the Asian Arts; and is it intended to have a Third Festival and a Second International Film Festival in 1978?
Are any new features to be included in these events?
MR. F. K. HU, CHAIRMAN OF THE CITY HALL AND ENTERTAINMENTS SELECT COMMITTEE, replied as follows (in English):—
It is intended to have a Second International Film Festival
and a Third Festival of Asian Arts in 1978.
I am pleased to say that the Council is most satisfied with the excellent public response to the Festival of Asian Arts. As I outlined at the Annual Conventional Debate, Festival ticket sales have reached 98% of capacity for two years running now. This means that, during the Second Festival, which was attended by no less than 370 artists from overseas in addition to those from Hong Kong, over 31,000 people attended the various perform- ances at the City Hall during the two-week period of the Festival, whilst the very popular free open air entertain- ment programme at various venues in Hong Kong and Kowloon attracted well over 100,000 people. The five Festival exhibitions, of wide overseas and local content, were visited by 159,000 people, thus bringing total public participation in the Festival to well over a quarter of a million people. There is clearly considerable public support for the Festival of Asian Arts and for this excel- lent response the Council is most gratified.
In reply to the second part of the question, the Second Inter- national Film Festival will, in addition to an expanded main programme of international films and selections of films produced in Hong Kong, feature two other special programmes: first, a tribute to James WONG Howe, being a commemorative photographic and film exhibition of the late renowned Chinese cinematographer of Hollywood, and, second, Hong Kong Cinema Retrospective, being a study of Cantonese films in the '50s and their sociological background.
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The programme content of the Third Festival of Asian Arts has still to be finalized; it it clear, however, that this Festival will be run on lines broadly similar to the Second Festival.
(2) MISS CECILIA L. Y. YEUNG asked the following question (in Cantonese):-
Does the Urban Services Department send Health Inspectors
to investigate restaurants after general office hours. If so, what time of the night do they carry out their duties? Does the Department notice or discover that some shops' nature of business change into unauthorized or unlicenced restaurant which are run by the owners themselves or by others through renting or letting and restored to their original nature of trading during the day. What action is taken to prevent, correct or stop such unauthorized business?
DR. P. C. Wong, Vice-CHAIRMAN OF THE FOOD HYGIENE SELECT COMMITTEE, replied as follows (in English):-
The first part of the question concerns the inspection of restaurants by Health Inspectors of the Urban Services Department after office hours and the times at which night inspections are carried out. Health Inspectors do conduct regular night visits to licensed restaurants in order to ensure that legal requirements and licensing conditions are observed by the licensees after general office hours. The times at which licensed restaurants are inspected out- side normal office hours vary considerably with the type of business and also sometimes with the season of the year. Night-clubs and bars can best be inspected late at night and most other restaurants at popular eating times. In summer, restaurants at bathing beaches and swimming pool complexes have to be checked on weekends, Sundays and public holidays when the bulk of their business takes place. In short, the hours of inspection after normal office hours vary and are normally adjusted to suit the needs of each individual case in the light of practical experience.
The second part of the question concerns the existence of unlicensed restaurants in premises which are used for
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