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HONG KONG URBAN COUNCIL
The work of the Environmental Hygiene Select Committee and the Food and Food Premises Select Committee is related in several fields and it was agreed that there would be advantage in having the Chairman of the Food and Food Premises Select Committee as a Member of the Environmental Hygiene Select Committee. Mr. Kenneth T. C. Lo, the Chairman of the Food and Food Premises Select Committee, has agreed to become a Member of the Environmental Hygiene Select Committee.
MOTIONS.
(1) DR. DENNY M. H. HUANG, CHAIRMAN OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL HYGIENE SELECT COMMITTEE, moved the following motion:-
Citation.
"That under By-law 4 of the Public Conveniences (Conduct and Behaviour) By-laws, Cap. 132, the Urban Council makes the following order:
1. This order may be cited as the Public Conveniences (Charges) (Amendment) (No. 3) Order 1970.
Amendment of 2. The principal order is amended in paragraph 2 by paragraph 2.
adding, after item (14), the following new item-
(15) Public latrine at Stanley Beach'."
(Cap. 132, sub. leg.)
He said: Mr. Chairman, as Chairman of the Environmental Hygiene Select Committee, I rise to move the motion standing in my name.
The purpose of this motion is to comply with the provisions of By-law 4(1) of the Public Conveniences (Conduct and Behaviour) By-laws which require that ten cents should be charged for the use of any coin-operated compartment provided in public latrines managed by the Council.
I beg to move.
MR. HENRY H. L. HU:-I am very pleased to second this motion. The facilities referred to in this motion will replace the old facilities at Stanley Beach and which, in the past, have led to many complaints being made to my ward office at Stanley. (I am Ward Member at Stanley from 1965 - 1968).
The conversion of the old dry latrines to flush latrines will considerably improve the position, and I am very pleased that this has now come about.
I second the motion.
CHAIRMAN:-The motion has been moved and seconded, does any Member wish to speak to it?
MR. BERNACCHI:-I also am happy to support this Motion for the same reason. I am the present Ward Member of Stanley, and I have been urging the building of this new public latrine ever since I became Ward Member for Stanley, as my predecessor, Mr. Henry Hu, has done. From my files there has been in the past, in this particular case, too much delay in building-I know there were certain reasons--but those reasons have been overcome and the new public latrine has last been built.
MR. CHEONG-LEEN:-Mr. Chairman, shouldn't my elected colleagues, Mr. Brook BERNACCHI and Mr. Henry Hu, toss a coin to see who was the most responsible for such accomplishment? (Laughter).
MR. LO TAK-SHING:-That coin may well drop into the latrine. (Laughter).
CHAIRMAN:-I should think probably, ladies and gentlemen, somebody will write a novel about this.
The question was put.
The motion was carried unanimously.
(2) MR. KENNETH T. C. LO, CHAIRMAN OF THE FOOD AND FOOD PREMISES SELECT COMMITTEE, moved the following motion:-
"That the following By-laws be made under section 56 of the Public Health and Urban Services Ordinance, Cap. 132:
(a) Frozen Confections (Amendment) By-laws 1970,
(b) Milk (Amendment) By-laws 1970, and
(c) Food Business (Amendment) (No. 2) By-laws 1970.".
He said Mr. Chairman, as Chairman of the Food and Food Premises Select Committee, I rise to move the motion standing in my name.
The need for making these amendments, referred to in the motion, is set out in the explanatory note to each amendment.
The purpose of the amendments is to alter all existing references to temperatures from the Fahrenheit Scale to the Celsius Scale. At the same time the opportunity has been taken to make an additional amendment to the Frozen Confections By-laws by cancelling the existing by-law 10, which provides that all frozen confections shall be kept at a temperature below -2° Celsius, and replacing it with a new by-law which exempts soft ice cream from this requirement.
I beg to move.
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