Slept at 12:00 PM last night and woke up at 6:00 AM to go fishing. We were off Malaratuan proceeding to Lubang off Ambil Island.
Official Gazette for June 2, 1973: THE PRESIDENT has declared the development of a nationwide net work of locally controlled waterworks and sewerage systems as a Government policy of high priority to spur economic growth and ensure public health protection, especially in rural areas. The Chief Executive has promulgated Presidential Decree No. 198—referred to as the Provincial Water Utilities Act of 1973—providing for the formulation and operation of “independent, locally controlled public water districts.” The Decree also provides two statutes, the Local Water District Law and the Local Water Utilities Administration Law.
THE LOCAL Water District Law, embodied in Presidential Decree No 198, provides the authority and power for the legislative body of a city municipality or province to form local water districts. Districts may lie formed to acquire, install, improve, maintain and operate water supply and distribution systems for domestic, industrial, municipal and agricultural uses for residents and lands within boundaries of such districts ; provide, maintain and operate waste-water collection, treatment and disposal of facilities; and conduct other functions and operations incidental water source development, utilization and disposal. The district will be managed by a five-member board which will also name the district’s general manager.
THE LOCAL Water Utilities Administration—which will be attached to the National Economic, and Development Authority—is the national agency that will supervise and integrate the various districts’ waterworks and sewerage projects. The agency will assume the following functions: 1, Establish minimum standards and regulations to assure acceptable standards of construction materials and supplies, maintenance, operation, personnel, training, accounting and fiscal practices for local utilities. 2) Furnish technical assistance and personnel training programs for local water utilities. 3) Monitor and evaluate local water standards. 4) Effect system integration, joint investment and operations, district annexation and de-annexation. 4) Provide a specialized lending institution with expertise in the financing of local water utilities. The board of trustees of the administration shall be composed of five members, all Filipino citizens to be appointed by the President to serve five-year terms.
THE GOVERNMENT has issued land transfer certificates to 550 tenant-tillers of the 3,400-hectare Hawkins Estate in Cagayan and ended a 46-year-old land dispute between the estate’s heirs and Ilocano settlers. The beneficiaries received their certificates together with 1,807 other Cagayan farmers from the nearby towns of Enrile, Amulung, Solana and Faire. Agrarian Reform Secretary Conrado F. Estrella said that the entire Hawkins Estate is now under the Government’s land transfer program.
THE PRESIDENT moved to stimulate the expansion and improvement of the country’s shipping industry by ordering the reimbursement of a 17 per cent tax on imported vessels to local firms. He also announced he will soon create an independent Maritime Development Commission. The two moves are aimed to revitalize the nations shipping industry to make it more competitive in the worldwide maritime trade. The President stressed that an improved water transportation will promote tourism development and serve the growing requirements of the country’s coastwise commerce.
M A N I L A I N T E R N A T I O N A L Airport customshouse collected P8, 570.416.24 in revenue last May, which was more than double that of the same month last year. Airport Collector Cesar Dario attributed the increased collection, which started after the imposition of Martial Law, to the new morality now obtaining in the Bureau of Customs, and to the military presence at the airport. Last April, the collection of the airport customshouse hit the P8 million mark for the first time. Before that, customs collection at the airport averaged only from P3 million to P2 million monthly.
DEPARTMENT of Trade assured the public that the Government has taken steps to soften the impact on the local scene of the continuing drop in the production of fishmeal abroad and the heavy purchases of wheat by the Republic of China. Secretary of Trade Troadio T. Quiazon Jr. said appropriate agencies of the Government have already been advised to meet the repercussions in the domestic scene of this worldwide development.
No strike but was able to read and sleep. Returned to the 777 at 1:30 PM after an encounter with sharks having a fast in a school of skipjack tuna of Golo Island. The sharks were too well fed to strike.
Napped from 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM when we arrived at Look Cove at Nasugbu, Batangas.
I slalomed in this most ideal of skiing beaches, rested when I met the people of Barrio Calayo and Look led by the Capitan del Barrio of Calayo. Gave them a three room Marcos profab schoolhouse including construction expenses. And skied again at about 6:00 PM.
Even after sunset at 6:25 PM we were still skiing—up to 7:00 PM when Rom [Romualdez] Vildinz did some slaloming and jumping.
I have decided to sleep in the 777 so we can fish and ski early tomorrow.
Have directed Sec. [Jose] Roño to prepare for the referendum July 15th.