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to time, but in general these only result in a temporary improvement. An increase in supervisory staff has been approved in this year's estimates, which should result in some improvement in estates where direct labour is employed.
The Resettlement Management Select Committee has recently discussed the problems of estate sanitation and the department will soon be producing a paper for the Committee on possible improvements.
MR. SALES: -Mr. Chairman, I suggest that this matter be studied in all seriousness by the new Chairman of the Resettlement Management Select Committee, Mr. Henry Hu himself, so that these measures might be put into effect then.
MR. HU:-Thank you very much. Mr. Chairman through you to Mr. SALES, certainly it is a very important problem in Resettlement Estates at the moment. I personally would like to see that certain persuasion should be exercised on the residents in Resettlement Estates, in particular to protect the ground floor schools which are the main object for the dumping of rubbish from the upper floors. Certainly if a paper is presented to the Management Select Committee we will discuss it carefully.
MR. SALES: -Thank you very much.
MR. WU: Mr. Chairman, at one of the recent Resettlement Management Select Committee meetings, the question of supervision by the Resettlement Department staff, particularly senior staff would be possible and it should be tried, at least on a provisional basis, for campaigns to be launched in order to keep resettlement areas in an acceptable manner. I would ask if Mr. Hu would like to follow this up in subsequent Management Select Committee meetings?
MR. HU:Mr. Chairman, through you, certainly I would.
MOTIONS.
(1) THE CHAIRMAN moved the following motion:
"That the Public Latrines (Cancellation) By-laws 1969 be made under Section 35 of the Public Health and Urban Services Ordinance (Cap. 132)."
He said: The purpose of this motion is to rescind the Public Latrines By-laws which were originally made under the now repealed Public Health (Sanitation) Ordinance, 1935. When, in 1960, the Public Health & Urban Services Ordinance (Chapter 132) replaced the 1935 Ordinance, these By-laws were kept in being and deemed to have been made under Section 35 of the new Ordinance the intention being that they should remain in force until their place was taken by revised by-laws.
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Ordinance, these By-laws were kept in being and deemed to have been made under Section 35 of the new Ordinance the intention being that they should remain in force until their place was taken by revised by-laws.
In 1961, revised By-laws were in fact made, in the form of the Public Conveniences (Conduct and Behaviour) By-laws, but the old Public Latrines By-laws have not yet been rescinded. The object of this motion is to rescind them as, relating to a situation which does not now exist (whereby public latrines were operated by private contractors), they are no longer required.
I beg to move.
DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF MEDICAL & HEALTH SERVICES:-Mr. Chairman, I rise to second the motion.
The question was put.
The motion was carried unanimously.
(2) THE CHAIRMAN moved the following motion:-
"RESOLVED—
(1) Under Section 59 of the Urban Council Ordinance that the persons whose names are set out in the first column of the attached Schedule shall be the members of the Select Committees detailed for the period up to the commencement of the first meeting of the Urban Council in April, 1970, except that Mr. A. de O. SALES, Mr. Wilson T. S. WANG, Mr. R. H. LOBO, Mr. H. M. G. FORSGATE and Mr. Kenneth T. C. Lo, whose respective terms of office as Appointed Members expire on 31st March, 1970, shall be members of the relevant Select Committees until that date. (2) Under Standing Order 22(6) that the Chairman of each Select Committee shall be as set out in the first column of the attached Schedule for the period up to the commencement of the first meeting of the Urban Council in April, 1970, except that Mr. A. de O. SALES, Mr. Wilson T. S. WANG, Mr. R. H. LOBO, Mr. H. M. G. FORSGATE and Mr. Kenneth T. C. Lo, whose respective terms of office as Appointed Members expire on 31st March, 1970, shall be Chairmen of the relevant Select Committees until that date.
(3) Under Section 60(1) of the Urban Council Ordinance and Section 5(1) of the Resettlement Ordinance that the powers
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