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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1980
VILLAGERS AND VISITORS URGED TO KEEP SHA TIN CLEAN
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NEW TERRITORIES SERVICES DEPARTMENT HEALTH INSPECTORS TODAY CALLED ON VILLAGERS AND SHOPKEEPERS OF TAI WAI IN SHA TIN AND ADVISED THEM TO KEEP THEIR ENVIRONMENT CLEAN.
A SPOKESMAN FOR THE SHA TIN URBAN SERVICES OFFICE ALSO URGED VISITORS HOLIDAYING IN SHA TIN NOT TO TURN THE RAILWAY STATION AND A SECTION OF TAI PO ROAD NEAR THE CHINESE UNIVERSITY INTO A REFUSE DUMPING GROUND.
AS PART OF THE CURRENT ANTI-LITTER DRIVE IN THE NEW TERRITORIES, HEALTH INSPECTORS ARE PAYING VISITS TO MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC, IN PARTICULAR HOUSEWIVES AND SHOP-OPERATORS, URGING THEM TO MAKE FULL USE OF THE REFUSE COLLECTION POINTS AND NOT TO THROW LITTER OUT OF THEIR PREMISES.
FIFTY-THREE PEOPLE WERE TODAY EITHER SERVED WITH NOTICES REQUIRING THEM TO REMOVE JUNK, OR BOOKED FOR LITTERING DURING THE OPERATION, SAID A SPOKESMAN FOR THE SHA TIN URBAN SERVICES OFFICE.
TO COINCIDE WITH THE DRIVE, CLEANSING STAFF ALSO CARRIED OUT AN EXTENSIVE CLEAN-UP AT LITTER BLACK SPOTS IN TAI WAI AREA.
THE EXERCISE WILL LAST THROUGHOUT THE MONTH OF NOVEMBER.
PRIVATE CAR REGISTRATIONS IN OCTOBER
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THE NUMBER OF REGISTERED PRIVATE CARS IN HONG KONG TOPPED 186 000 AT THE END OF LAST MONTH, AN INCREASE OF ALMOST 27 000 OR 16.9 PER CENT IN 12 MONTHS.
THIS COMPARES WITH A RISE OF ABOUT 19 400 IN THE 12 MONTHS ENDED OCTOBER, 1979.
THE NUMBER OF NEW CARS REGISTERED LAST MONTH WAS 3 772, AND THE NUMBER OF REGISTRATIONS WHICH LAPSED WAS 909.
THIS REPRESENTS A NET INCREASE OF 2 863 REGISTRATIONS AND BRINGS THE OVERALL TOTAL TO 185 926.
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