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follow up a head count (for the Commissioner of Police to prosecute messes and canteens within the force). Only then will justice be upheld. Applying for licences is just a formality. If there was a breach of the law and the Commissioner admitted it without taking out any prosecutions, I don't see how we can claim that justice has been done.
MR. SAN STEPHEN WONG HON-CHING (in Cantonese):--Mr. Chairman, this question is in fact more or less the same as that raised by Mr. Lee Kwok-keung. On what we should do and whether to take out prosecutions. I believe it is not for the LLB to instruct the Police. I feel that if the Police wants to show that they have a clear way to do things, they will know what to do. In any case, we will negotiate with the Police.
MR. FRANCIS TANG CHI-HO (in Cantonese):-From experience, I know that a certain police station in the area under the jurisdiction of the Provisional Regional Council is still selling liquor. I think the main thing is that licensing staff of the Department should step up inspection work and visit places which are about to apply for liquor licences.
Mr. San Stephen Wong Hon-Ching (in Cantonese): This is a comment. Mr. Chairman. Anyway, we will follow up.
(2) MR. DANIEL TO BOON-MAN asked the following question (in Cantonese):~On matters regarding the Lunar New Year Fairs, I have the following questions:
(i) How effective was the Council's promotion of environmental protection in Lunar New Year Fairs this year?
(ii) Please provide the following statistics on the clean-up after the Council's Lunar New Year Fairs in 1999 in comparison to those of last year:
(a) the total weight of garbage collected from all Lunar New Year Fair venues,
(b) the number of staff involved and clean-up time spent.
(iii) There were media reports that some successful tenderers scalped on the Internet the fair sites tendered to them. What measures do the Council have to prevent the tendered fair sites from being scalped, and to punish the scalpers?
(iv) There have been complaints from citizens that a stall in the Lunar New Year Fair at Victoria Park is suspected of trading by improper practice, in that:—customers were asked to pay by installments and to collect the goods by vouchers, but the address shown on the vouchers in fact did not exist, and the customers could not collect their purchased goods. What measures does the Department have to prevent similar unlawful practice on our citizens? Does the Department have any records of the persons being suspected of trading by improper practice? Could the persons
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