WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1976
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+THIS IS A FIELD IN WHICH WE HAVE MADE SUBSTANTIAL PROGRESS IN THE LAST SIX OR SEVEN YEARS, BUT WE HAVE TO GO FURTHER TO REACH THE STANDARD WE HAVE SET AND I AM SURE WE CAN DO SO FAIRLY WELL WITHIN FIVE YEARS.
+ INDEED THE LEGISLATION NOW PROPOSED WILL GO A LONG WAY TOWARDS CLOSING THE GAP.
+1 AM SATISFIED THAT WE CAN DO SO BY STEPS GRADUATED SO AS NOT TO AFFECT MATERIALLY OUR COMPETITIVE POSITION, HE ADDED.
URBAN COUNCIL LAUDED
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THE GOVERNOR TODAY PAID TRIBUTE TO THE URBAN COUNCIL AND SAID THE NEW ARRANGEMENTS UNDER WHICH IT WORKED HAD PROVED A SUCCESS AND A STIMULANT THROUGHOUT ITS FIELD OF ACTIVITY.
IN HIS ADDRESS TO THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL, SIR MURRAY SAID, +WE ARE ALL PARTICULARLY IMPRESSED WITH THE DIMENSION IT HAS BROUGHT TO ITS WORK IN THE CULTURAL FIELD.
+THE GREAT VOLUME AND VARIETY OF ENTERTAINMENT WHICH IT NOW OFFERS HAS BROUGHT NEW INTEREST AND NEW EXCITEMENT TO A WIDE CROSS-SECTION OF THE POPULATION,+
HE SAID THAT THE COUNCIL'S APPROACH TO HAWKING DURING THE RECESSION WAS HUMANE AND REALISTIC,
+ I AM SURE NOW THAT HAWKING IS SLIGHTLY IN DECLINE THE COUNCIL WILL BE EQUALLY IMAGINATIVE IN PLANNING PERMANENT PROVISION FOR THE RIGHT LEVEL OF THIS FORM OF RETAIL TRADE.+
ON THE CLEAN HONG KONG CAMPAIGN, SIR MURRAY SAID, +HONG KONG IS MUCH CLEANER THAN IT WÁS.+
+THE COUNCIL HAD GREAT INITIAL SUCCESS IN CLEANING THE STREETS AND LITTER SPOTS AND HAS FOLLOWED UP WITH THE BEACHES.
+CLEANLINESS AND CARE FOR THE APPEARANCE OF WHAT WE SEE EACH DAY IS OF INESTIMABLE VALUE TO THE WHOLE COMMUNITY JUST AS THE REVERSE IS AN IRRITANT AND A THREAT TO HEALTH, + HE ADDED.
SIR MURRAY NOTED THAT A CLEAN ENVIRONMENT BRED CARE TO PRESERVE IT, JUST AS TOLERATED LITTER BEGOT IND IFFERENCE.
+WE ALL THEREFORE ATTACH THE GREATEST IMPORTANCE TO THE COUNCIL'S FURTHER WORK IN THIS FIELD, AND WISH THEM SUCCESS IN THEIR ENDEAVOURS TO PERSUADE THE PUBLIC TO MAKE EXTRA EFFORT IN THE IR RESIDENTIAL BLOCKS AND IN THE STREETS SO THAT OUR CITY WILL NOT JUST BE CLEANER THAN MOST OTHERS, BUT WILL BE SECOND TO NONE,+ THE GOVERNOR SAID.
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