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SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1989
"MOST PEOPLE IN HONG KONG HAVE SPENT SOME OF THEIR WEEKENDS AND HOLIDAYS IN THESF SCENIC HILLS, WALKING, HIKING OR ROCK CLIMBING. BUT ALL TOO OFTEN THEIR ENJOYMENT 15 SPOILED BY LITTER SCATTERED EVERYWHERE.
"THIS IS CARELESS: IT IS IRRESPONSIBLE; IT SI1OWS NO CONCERN FOR OTHERS.
"IT IS UNSIGHTLY, UNHYGIENIC AND HAZARDOUS TO COUNTRYSIDE VISITORS AND WILDLIFE. SIR DAVID REMARKED.
SOME HE NOTED THAT EVERY YEAR
1.000 TONNES OF UP COLLECTED IN COUNTRY PARKS, MUCH OF WHICH WAS PICKED AREAS AND STEEP SLOPES.
"RESOURCES WHICH COULD BE USED FOR DEVELOPING
DISPOSAL HAVE TO BE DEPLOYED IN THE COLLECTION AND DAVID ADDED.
LITTER WERE FROM REMOTE
MORE FACILITIES
OF
LITTER,
SIR
I
HE COMMENDED THE COUNTRY PARKS AUTHORITY OF THE AGRICULTURE AND FISHERIES DEPARTMENT FOR SETTING UP THE "HIKING LITTER WARDEN SCHEME" LAST YEAR TO INVOLVE HIKING GROUPS IN KEEPING
HIKING TRAILS CLEAN.
THE MOUNTAINS AND
ACTIVITIES SIR DAVID HOPED SIMILAR
COULD BE ORGANISED THIS YEAR AND THAT MORE HIKERS COULD BE ENROLLED AS HIKING LITTER WARDENS.
ALSO OFFICIATING AT TODAY'S CEREMONY WAS AFD'S ASSISTANT DIRECTOR (CONSERVATION AND COUNTRY PARKS), MR FRANK LAU.
LOCAL
HIKING AND THE LION ROCK AND KAM
AFTER THE CEREMONY,
MEMBERS OF MOUNTAINEERING GROUPS PROCEEDED TO CLEAN UP SHAN COUNTRY PARKS.
OVER 150
ΤΟ
CLIMBERS TOP AND STEEP
BY THE HONG HIKING
GROUPS
ROCK
SIR DAVID AND MR LAU LED A TEAM OF 10 EXPERT UNDERTAKE THE CHALLENGING TASK OF CLEANING UP THE HILL SLOPES OF AMAH ROCK.
ORGANISED THE CLEANING EXPEDITIONS WERE JOINTLY KONG MOUNTAINEERING UNION, THE HONG KONG FEDERATION OF AND THE AGRICULTURE AND FISHERIES DEPARTMENT.
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