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for resiting the 56 on-street licensed cooked food stalls in Sham Shui Po East, a Street and that of Tai Shing Street and Tung Tau Tsuen Road, I have raised it is expected that some of these cooked food stall licensees will opt for ex-gratia questions at two monthly meetings since mid-1989, but still little improvement has payments instead of resites.
been made to the situation, which is even deteriorating every day particularly at the junction of Tai Shing Street and Tai Tung Street before 8 a.m. This hawker MR. TONG KAM-BIU (in Cantonese):-Mr. Chairman, I thank Mr. Hilton black spot, known as 'Daybreak Market', has not only caused extreme traffic Cheong-Leen for a good plan in taking care of the situation in Sham Shui Po inconvenience to the nearby residents and students going to school, but also East. But I would like to ask a supplementary. Can he tell us the timetable fo generated noise and nuisance to an intolerable extent. The section of sidewalk solving the problem? Besides, will there be any interim measures because the from the junction of Tai Shing Street and Tung Tau Tsuen Road to the Kei Heep cooked food stalls have created a lot of nuisance along Fuk Wah Street and in Technical School becomes a hawkers meeting place starting from about 3 p.m., vicinity. Other food shops in the area which have also placed tables, stoves
apart from the morning hours. At the Council meeting in November last year, the freezers on the pavement following the example of cooked food stalls pose Department gave me the reply that the issue of increasing resources for hawker dangerous situation. Do we have any prompt and interim measures to deal with management would be discussed in December. May I know the result of the discussion? When will the Department take concrete action to deal with the problem? Will it consider strengthening the raids before 8 a.m. in addition to those MR. HILTON CHEONG-LEEN (in English):-Mr. Chairman, the new Sham Shu launched in the afternoon?
Po Complex and Wing Hong Street Complex are expected to be completed by 1995 and resiting can commence from around that time. In the meantime, with
situation in Sham Shui Po?
the
the existing resources, the food stalls will be regularly inspected by the GD MR. HILTON CHEONG-LEEN, CHAIRMAN OF THE MARKETS AND STREET TRADERS and health inspectors of the Department. Enforcement actions will be taken fo SELECT COMMITTEE replied as follows (in English):—Mr. Chairman, the first contravention of the law and joint operations with the Police will be carried ou part of the question concerns the resources for hawker management. At the when the circumstances warrant.
Council meeting on 14 November last year mentioned by Mr. FUNG, I was actually referring to the deliberations of the Government's Working Group on MR. TONG KAM-BIU (in Cantonese):-Mr. Chairman, as mentioned by on Hawker Control about the long term improvement of hawker control member, most of the stalls operate at the night time. Recently, I have heard that i resources. Proposed measures included the introduction of a special allowance Mong Kok there have been joint surprise raids. Can we do something similar for the General Duties Team staff and the restructuring of the General Duties Sham Shui Po because if we go to Pei Ho Street in Sham Shui Po, apart from the Team. As regards increased hawker control resources for the Wong Tai Sin cooked food stalls, we've got a lot of hawkers and cinemas there and the situatio District specifically in the short term, an additional General Duties Team squad is rather chaotic? Something must be done as the situation is totally intolerable. was created, trained and posted to the district in March 1990, for the purpose of protecting the Sheung Fung Street Market and re-inforcing hawker control duties at other hawker black spots.
MR. HILTON CHEONG-LEEN (in English): Mr. Chairman, I do sympathize wit the point made by Mr. TONG Kam-biu and I will refer his suggestion to th Department to see what can be done within the existing available resources.
The second part of the question concerns whether action will be taken to deal with the hawker problem in Tai Shing Street and its vicinity. The Department's
MR. FREDERICK K. K. FUNG (in Cantonese):—Mr. Chairman, having heard th General Duties Team is taking regular enforcement action against the illegal reply of Mr. Hilton CHEONG-LEEN, most of the redeveloped markets are located in hawkers in Tai Shing Street, Tai Tung Street and Tung Tau Tsuen Road. Sham Shui Po West area, but the reprovisioned stalls mainly come from Shar Between January and April this year, a total of 438 hawker raids were carried Shui Po East area. There is a need for the existence of the majority of cooke out in the three areas concerned, resulting in the arrest of 475 hawkers and 122 food stalls in Sham Shui Po East. So, has Mr. CHEONG-leen also tried to identify seizures of abandoned hawker goods and paraphernalia. The Department will a suitable site in Sham Shui Po East to reprovision a market there for the stalls? continue to try its very best to control illegal hawking activities in the areas
under the constraint of existing manpower resources. MR. HILTON CHEONG-LEEN (in English):—Mr. Chairman, as far as I am aware the Department is constantly looking for suitable sites and if any members The third part of the question concerns the possibility of intensifying early who are familiar with the area, can put forward suggestions, I am sure the morning hawker raids in the areas concerned. Given the existing staff resources Department and the Select Committee are willing to consider.
available, it is not possible to carry out raids before 8 a.m. on a regular basis. However, the Department is monitoring the situation very closely and it does
7. MR. FUNG KWONG-CHUNG asked the following question (in Cantonese):-examine and will continue to examine whether more such raids could be Regarding the hawker problem at the junction of Tai Shing Street and Tai Tum arranged.
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for resiting the 56 on-street licensed cooked food stalls in Sham Shui Po East, a Street and that of Tai Shing Street and Tung Tau Tsuen Road, I have raised it is expected that some of these cooked food stall licensees will opt for ex-gratia questions at two monthly meetings since mid-1989, but still little improvement has payments instead of resites.
been made to the situation, which is even deteriorating every day particularly at the junction of Tai Shing Street and Tai Tung Street before 8 a.m. This hawker MR. TONG KAM-BIU (in Cantonese):-Mr. Chairman, I thank Mr. Hilton black spot, known as 'Daybreak Market', has not only caused extreme traffic Cheong-Leen for a good plan in taking care of the situation in Sham Shui Po inconvenience to the nearby residents and students going to school, but also East. But I would like to ask a supplementary. Can he tell us the timetable fo generated noise and nuisance to an intolerable extent. The section of sidewalk solving the problem? Besides, will there be any interim measures because the from the junction of Tai Shing Street and Tung Tau Tsuen Road to the Kei Heep cooked food stalls have created a lot of nuisance along Fuk Wah Street and in Technical School becomes a hawkers meeting place starting from about 3 p.m., vicinity. Other food shops in the area which have also placed tables, stoves
apart from the morning hours. At the Council meeting in November last year, the freezers on the pavement following the example of cooked food stalls pose Department gave me the reply that the issue of increasing resources for hawker dangerous situation. Do we have any prompt and interim measures to deal with management would be discussed in December. May I know the result of the discussion? When will the Department take concrete action to deal with the problem? Will it consider strengthening the raids before 8 a.m. in addition to those MR. HILTON CHEONG-LEEN (in English):-Mr. Chairman, the new Sham Shu launched in the afternoon? Po Complex and Wing Hong Street Complex are expected to be completed b 1995 and resiting can commence from around that time. In the meantime, with
situation in Sham Shui Po?
the
the existing resources, the food stalls will be regularly inspected by the GD MR. HILTON CHEONG-LEEN, CHAIRMAN OF THE MARKETS AND STREET TRADERS and health inspectors of the Department. Enforcement actions will be taken fo SELECT COMMITTEE replied as follows (in English):—Mr. Chairman, the first contravention of the law and joint operations with the Police will be carried ou part of the question concerns the resources for hawker management. At the when the circumstances warrant.
Council meeting on 14 November last year mentioned by Mr. FUNG, I was actually referring to the deliberations of the Government's Working Group on MR. TONG KAM-BIU (in Cantonese):-Mr. Chairman, as mentioned by on Hawker Control about the long term improvement of hawker control member, most of the stalls operate at the night time. Recently, I have heard that i resources. Proposed measures included the introduction of a special allowance Mong Kok there have been joint surprise raids. Can we do something similar for the General Duties Team staff and the restructuring of the General Duties Sham Shui Po because if we go to Pei Ho Street in Sham Shui Po, apart from the Team. As regards increased hawker control resources for the Wong Tai Sin cooked food stalls, we've got a lot of hawkers and cinemas there and the situatio District specifically in the short term, an additional General Duties Team squad is rather chaotic? Something must be done as the situation is totally intolerable. was created, trained and posted to the district in March 1990, for the purpose of protecting the Sheung Fung Street Market and re-inforcing hawker control duties at other hawker black spots.
MR. HILTON CHEONG-LEEN (in English): Mr. Chairman, I do sympathize wit the point made by Mr. TONG Kam-biu and I will refer his suggestion to th Department to see what can be done within the existing available resources.
The second part of the question concerns whether action will be taken to deal with the hawker problem in Tai Shing Street and its vicinity. The Department's
MR. FREDERICK K. K. FUNG (in Cantonese):—Mr. Chairman, having heard th General Duties Team is taking regular enforcement action against the illegal reply of Mr. Hilton CHEONG-LEEN, most of the redeveloped markets are located in hawkers in Tai Shing Street, Tai Tung Street and Tung Tau Tsuen Road. Sham Shui Po West area, but the reprovisioned stalls mainly come from Shar Between January and April this year, a total of 438 hawker raids were carried Shui Po East area. There is a need for the existence of the majority of cooke out in the three areas concerned, resulting in the arrest of 475 hawkers and 122 food stalls in Sham Shui Po East. So, has Mr. CHEONG-leen also tried to identify seizures of abandoned hawker goods and paraphernalia. The Department will a suitable site in Sham Shui Po East to reprovision a market there for the stalls? continue to try its very best to control illegal hawking activities in the areas
under the constraint of existing manpower resources. MR. HILTON CHEONG-LEEN (in English):—Mr. Chairman, as far as I am aware the Department is constantly looking for suitable sites and if any members The third part of the question concerns the possibility of intensifying early who are familiar with the area, can put forward suggestions, I am sure the morning hawker raids in the areas concerned. Given the existing staff resources Department and the Select Committee are willing to consider.
available, it is not possible to carry out raids before 8 a.m. on a regular basis. However, the Department is monitoring the situation very closely and it does
7. MR. FUNG KWONG-CHUNG asked the following question (in Cantonese):-examine and will continue to examine whether more such raids could be Regarding the hawker problem at the junction of Tai Shing Street and Tai Tum arranged.
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