1944-, Fokmurry 15, 1974
ANOTHER SHOME CONTROL, ARIA
:
Cheung Sha Wan and Sham Shui Po are gazetted today as a smoke
control area, bringing to fit the number of ereas in fleng Kong in which
factories or other fuel voers een be fined for pregeðinn recto pollution
limite.
Four other areas have already been declared ameko control creas
Kym Tong in 1960, Sha Tin in 1952, North Point in 1964 and Tsuen Wan last
year.
Under today's gazette notice, members of the public in Cheung Sha
Wan and Sham Shui Po are given 21 days to make recommendations or objections
to the declaration, which is due to become effective on April 16, 1974.
Under the Clean Air Ordinance, an occupier of any premices within
the smoke control area who operates a face, oven or chiroy omitting
dark smoke for more than six minutes in a period of four hours, or pere than
three minutes at any one time, ia lizblo to a 62,000 fine. Ee can also be
fined $50 for every 15 minutes during which the offence continues
The Labour Department's Smoke Abatement Adviser, Mr. Ken Higginson,
said today the emission of knoko darker than the legal limits was simply a
result of inefficient combustion techniques, which also unnecessarily increased
fuel bills.
He said members of hio staff who could be contacted by ringing
3-688924 or 3-688954 during office hours -
ar
could give fuel usera frco advice
on how to increase the efficiency of their fvol usage and reduce their air
pollution.
Air. Higginson
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