Tuesday, March 20, 1973
At Sham Shui Po the readings had fallen by 27 per cent in the past
eight months. At the Central Market monitoring station, the fall had been
36 per cent in eleven months.
Mr. Higginson said there had also been dramatic falls in smoke
pollution in Hong Kong during the period.
During 1972, the monitoring station at Queen Elizabeth Hospital
had shown a fall of some 45 per cent in smoke readings.
years,
The readings in Central, after remaining steady for more than two
had now shown a 40 per cent improvement in 12 months.
At Hung Hom there was a fall of 27 per cent last year,
But Sham Shui Po had shown little change in smoke pollution readings
in the past three years. "There is unlikely to be any real change in this
situation until the area is declared a smoke control area," said Mr. Higginson.
Mr. Higginson attributed the improvement in the air pollution
situation to increased awareness of the problem among industrialists as a
result of the work of the Air Pollution Control Unit.
The Unit gives free technical advice to fuel users on the most
effective and economical way to operate furnaces, ovens and chimneys.
"It seems we've succeeded in converting a lot of former offenders
into law-abiding citizens without too many prosecutions," he said.
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