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Friday, August 17, 1973
FACTORIES FINED FOR EMITTING EXCESSIVE DARK SMOKE
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The proprietors of three factories were fined a total of
$3,300 in North Kowloon Magistracy today for offences under the Clean
Air Ordinance.
Two of the factories
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the Mayer Aluminium Limited and the
Hong Kong Rolling Mills Ltd. with two previous convictions each, were
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fined $1,500 and $1,200 respectively.
The other factory fined was the Atlantic Enamel Factory (HK) Ltd.
of Tsuen Wan, the first offender since Tsuen Wan was declared a smoke
control zone on May 15 this year. The factory was fined $600.
All these factories were found guilty of emitting dark smoke
exceeding the permitted period within a Smoke Control Area.
Under the Clean Air Ordinance, it is an offence for an occupier
of any premises within a smoke control area to operate any furnace,
oven, or chimney in such a manner that dark smoke is emitted for more
than six minutes in any period of four hours or for more than three
minutes continuously at any one time.
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