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they all must make a concerted effort to achieve total
public response to the very simple rule: litter should
go in the bin or the recption point and nowhere else.
Some will break this rule; let the public rebuke
their anti-social carelessness
and ridicule them
spoils for all the village, the town, the countryside or the
beach. Litter wardens and park rangers and police are
there to give support, and they will do their duty with
zeal. But it is to the public to whom I appeal in the
first instance to correct the thoughtless. If necessary
there are the courts to do justice on litterbugs.
Ladies and gentlemen, I must pay my tribute to the Clean
Hong Kong New Territories Advisory Committee, the Heung Yee
Kuk, the District Boards, and the New Territories
Administration who have set up this campaign. Never before
have the New Territories mobilised themselves to this extent
in so worthy a cause. I pledge you my personal support and
that of your Government. The New Territories are the oldest,
the most beautiful, and the most rapidly developing part
of Hong Kong. All working together, we can also make it the
cleanest.
I have much pleasure in launching the New
Territories part of the Clean Hong Kong Campaign and will
closely watch its progress,