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GOVERNOR SEEDS HAWKER PROBLEMS
Thursday, May 24, 1973
The Governor, Sir Murray MacLehose, spent over an hour in Pei Ho Street, Sham Shui Po, today talking to hawker and market stall-holders and seeing for himself the great many problems confronting the Urban Services Department there.
Pei Ho Street was chosen for the visit because of the large range of
hawker stalls
stalls
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from fixed pitch stalls to static stalls and unlicensed pedlar
selling a great variety of goods.
And as one USD spokesman put it: "All the hawker problems are
represented here."
The street, long known as a hawker blackspot was also named Lap Sap Street during the early phases of the Keep Hong Kong Clean Campaign.
In February this year, a large-scale cleaning and tidying-up operation was mounted. This was followed by the cutting-back to proper size of some 700 stalls which had been extended illegally choking the entire street.
The Governor was accompanied on the inspection visit by the Assistant Director (Abattoirs, Hawkers & Markets), Mr. James So, and two senior Hawker
Liaison Officers, Mr. Harry Martin and Mr. D.L. Smith.
Sir Murray showed great interest in the trading following the tidying-up operations there and asked both Urban Services Department officials and the hawkers many questions.
The street was picked also because it is the starting point of a Hong Kong-wide campaign to tidy-up and cut back to size all hawker stalls, an operation named "Delineation" by the Urban Services Department.
This delineation drive will later on include a resiting of hawker stalls
in other streets, or bazaars or in market complexes.
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