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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 12, 1981
NEW TERRITORIES CLEAN-UP TO INVOLVE COMMUNITY
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GOVERNMENT IS DETERMINED TO MAKE THE FORTHCOMING CLEAN HONG KONG CAMPAIGN TERRITORY-WIDE, WITH THE UNIQUE LITTER PROBLEMS IN THE NEW TERRITORIES RECEIVING SPECIAL ATTENTION.
THE PLANS TO GIVE THE NEW TERRITORIES A FACE-LIFT WERE TABLED THIS (WEDNESDAY) AFTERNOON AT A MEETING OF THE CLEAN HONG KONG NEW TERRITORIES ADVISORY COMMITTEE.
THE MEETING WAS ATTENDED BY THE ACTING GOVERNOR, SIR JACK CATER.
THE COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN, THE HONOURABLE CHARLES YEUNG STATED THAT THE LEAD AND THE FACILITIES PROVIDED BY GOVERNMENT TO CLEAN-UP THE NEW TERRITORIES WOULD BE MATCHED BY SUPPORT FROM THE COMMUNITY AT LARGE.
+THE ADVISORY COMMITTEE, MR YEUNG SAID, +HAS ALREADY MAPPED-OUT A COMPREHENSIVE TERRITORY-WIDE PROGRAMME TO MAKE SUFFICIENT PROVISION OF EQUIPMENT AND FACILITIES TOGETHER WITH ENOUGH MAN-POWER TO RUN THEM+.
HE EMPHASISED THAT SPECIAL EFFORTS HAD BEEN MADE TO INVOLVE THE COMMUNITY AT ALL LEVELS IN PUBLICISING THE CAMPAIGN, AND IN SETTING GOOD EXAMPLES OF CLEANLINESS AND PLEASANT LIVING CONDITIONS, SUCH EFFORTS HAD BEEN EXTENDED TO RURAL VILLAGES, HE SAID.
MR YEUNG ADDED THAT VARIOUS STICK-AND-CARROT+ METHODS WILL BE EMPLOYED, INCLUDING REVISED LAWS TO DETER AND FURTHER DISCOURAGE LITTERING HABITS. AT THE SAME TIME, FULL ENCOURAGEMENT AND RECOGNITION WOULD BE GIVEN TO WORTHWHILE EFFORTS FOR WHICH SPECIAL CERTIFICATES AND BADGES OF MERIT WOULD BE AWARDED.
THE ACTUAL CLEAN-UP IN THE NEW TERRITORIES HAS, IN FACT, ALREADY STARTED WITH AN ORGANISED ATTACK ON BLACK-SPOTS SUCH AS THE LITTERED SHORE-LINE AT MOUSE ISLAND AND NIM WAN IN TUEN MUN. NULLAHS IN SHATIN, THE KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY AND VARIOUS RIVERS IN SAI KUNG HAVE ALSO RECEIVED A 'SCRUB'.
DURING THE FORTHCOMING CAMPAIGN, SPECIFIC PROBLEMS OF AGRICULTURAL AND HORTICULTURAL WASTE, LITTERING IN COUNTRY PARKS AND VILLAGES, AND NULLAH AND STREAM POLLUTION IN THE NEW TERRITORIES WILL RECEIVE SPECIAL ATTENTION. GOVERNMENT HAS PROCURED SPECIAL MACHINERY FOR THE DREDGING OF RIVERS AND NEW REFUSE COLLECTION VEHICLES OF A SIZE TO RUN ON NARROW COUNTRY LANES.
EXPERIMENTAL BIOGAS PLANTS AND OTHER RE-CYCLING DEVICES FOR AGRICULTURAL WASTE ARE BEING PURCHASED.
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