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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1989
POLLUTION MUST BE BROUGHT UNDER CONTROL
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SPEND AT LEAST $20 DECADE SHOWS HOW UNDER CONTROL,
THE
THE FACT THAT THE GOVERNMENT PROPOSES TO
NEXT IN THE BILLION ON THE POLLUTION PROBLEM IMPORTANT IS THE OBJECTIVE OF BRINGING POLLUTION GOVERNOR, SIR DAVID WILSON, SAID TODAY (WEDNESDAY).
EMPHASISING
THE IMPORTANCE
PERSONALLY.
THE
THE
OF
AND PROBLEM WITH MATTER OF KEEPING HONG
HE THAT TO DEALING WHOLE.
ATTACHED GOVERNMENT AS A POLLUTION, SIR DAVID SAID IT WAS NOT JUST A KONG CLEAN, IMPORTANT THOUGH THAT WAS.
"POLLUTION CAN, AND OFTEN DOES, CAUSE DAMAGE TO OUR HEALTH
TO THAT OF OUR CHILDREN.
"WE MUST BRING IT UNDER CONTROL," HE SAID.
AND
OVERHAUL OF
OF THREE MASSIVE LANDFILL
MUCH OF THE MONEY WOULD BE SPENT ON THE COMPLETE THE SEWERAGE SYSTEM AND THE CONSTRUCTION SITES AND ASSOCIATED REFUSE TRANSFER STATIONS.
OUT
SIR DAVID POINTED OCTOBER ON POLLUTION PROBLEMS. IN
HAD
AT LENGTH HE
SPOKEN THAT
A WHITE PAPER ON POLLUTION,
FOR A PROPOSALS DETAIL JUNE,
OUT IN HAD SET PROGRAMME OF ACTION OVER THE NEXT 10 YEARS.
LAST PUBLISHED COMPREHENSIVE
THE PLANNING,
"WE HAVE
IMPLEMENT THESE. ΤΟ ALREADY BEGUN
WHICH CAME BRANCH, ENVIRONMENT AND LANDS WILL GIVE FRESH IMPETUS TO OUR EFFORTS TO HE SAID.
BEING INTO
LAST MONTH, IMPROVE THE ENVIRONMENT,
TI
THE GOVERNOR SAID THAT NEITHER MONEY NOR THE COULD SOLV.: THE TERRITORY'S POLLUTION PROBLEMS.
"EACH
GOVERNMENT ALONE
THIS
COMMUNITY HAS A VITAL AN ENVIRONMENT THAT IS
AND SAFE
MEMBER OF INDIVIDUAL CONTRIBUTION TO MAKE IN CREATING PLEASANT.
"UNTIL RECENTLY, FAR TOO MANY OF US IN HONG KONG OF THE THREATS TO OUR ENVIRONMENT.
WERE UNAWARE
"WE PLACED FAR TOO LITTLE IMPORTANCE ON PROTECTING IT.
"THIS ATTITUDE IS ALREADY CHANGING.
"THE GOVERNMENT HAS GIVEN A LEAD. PLAY ITS PART," SIR DAVID SAID.
IT MUST CHANGE FURTHER.
BUT THE COMMUNITY MUST ALSO
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