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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1985
UC ACTS IN LINE WITH GOVT'S POLICY ON CIGARETTE SMOKING
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THE URBAN COUNCIL HAS ACTED IN LINE WITH THE GOVERNMENT'S POLICY ON CIGARETTE SMOKING SINCE ITS PROMULGATION, SAID MR LAWRENCE FUNG, CHAIRMAN OF THE COUNCIL'S CULTURE SELECT COMMITTEE, TODAY.
HE WAS SPEAKING AT THE COUNCIL'S MONTHLY PUBLIC MEETING IN REPLY TO A QUESTION BY MR WALTER SULKE CONCERNING THE COUNCIL'S POLICY ON THE ACCEPTANCE OF SPONSORSHIP OR ADVERTISING FROM TOBACCO COMPANIES FOR CULTURAL OR SPORTING FUNCTIONS SOLELY OR JOINTLY PRESENTED BY THE COUNCIL.
MR FUNG SAID AT PRESENT, NOT ONLY IS SMOKING BANNED FROM THE COUNCIL'S CULTURAL VENUES, MUSEUMS AND PUBLIC LIBRARIES, THE COUNCIL HAS ALSO DECIDED NOT TO ACCEPT SPONSORSHIP OR ADVERTISING FROM TOBACCO COMPANIES FOR CULTURAL OR SPORTING FUNCTIONS SOLELY OR JOINTLY PRESENTED BY THE COUNCIL.
+THIS CONTINUES TO BE THE COUNCIL'S POLICY.+
RAT PROBLEM NOT DETERIORATING
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ACCORDING TO STATISTICS. THE RAT PROBLEM IN TSIM SHA TSUI AND YAU MA TEI IS NOT DETERIORATING, MR WALTER SULKE, CHAIRMAN OF THE URBAN COUNCIL'S FOOD HYGIENE SELECT COMMITTEE, SAID TODAY.
REPLYING TO QUESTIONS BY MR L.H. KWAN, HE TOLD THE COUNCIL'S MONTHLY MEETING THAT THE URBAN SERVICES DEPARTMENT CONSIDERED THAT THE PRESENT SITUATION WOULD NOT SERIOUSLY AFFECT ENVIRONMENTAL HYGIENE IN THE TWO DISTRICTS.
HE SAID THAT WHILE IT WAS NEVER EASY TO QUANTIFY THE DEGREE OF INFESTATION IN ANY AREA, A ROUGH INDICATOR WOULD BE THE NUMBER OF RODENT COMPLAINTS RECEIVED AND THE NUMBER OF DEAD RATS COLLECTED.
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+DURING THE PERIOD 1.1.85 TO 31.10.85, 355 RAT COMPLAINTS (ONLY ONE OF WHICH WAS DIRECTLY IN CONNECTION WITH FOOD PREMISES) WERE RECEIVED AND 3 870 DEAD RATS COLLECTED IN THESE TWO DISTRICTS AS COMPARED WITH 384 AT COMPLA INTS AND 3 784 DEAD RATS COLLECTED DURING THE SAME PER 1OD IN 1984, + HE SAID.
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