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Monday, September 25, 1972
FINES FOR MOSQUITO BREEDING
The Urban Services Department has again appealed for public
co-operation in helping to prevent the breeding of mosquitoes,
This can be done by ensuring that all possible water containers
are either constantly emptied or properly protected.
A USD spokesman said the Government has been active in its
efforts to control large-scale breeding places such as streams, pools,
and vacant blocks of land.
"The control of small breeding places in and around domestic
premises is left to constant checking by the public," the spokesman added,
Recently a construction company was fined $500 in the North
Kowloon Magistracy after an Anti-Mosquito Gang of the Urban Services
Department found mosquito larvae in a pool of water on the first
floor of a building under construction in Waterloo Road.
$1,000.
The discovery was made during a routine survey of the site.
The maximum penalty for allowing the breeding of mosquitoes is
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