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All Over at Noon

Singapore—Land Office Demolition teams yesterday moved in to put an end to illegal prawn ponds in Lin Chu Kang area at about noon without coming first to inform us, said one of the pond operators. According to the Land Office, the owners defied notice to quit for more than a year. It is understood that similar illegal ponds operating in Sembabang, Kranji, Selstar and Ponggol areas would suffer the same fate if notices by the land office went unheeded.

An official at the Land Office said: if they should want to operate such ponds, a Temporary LIcence will first have to be applied for'.