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TIME TO REDRESS BALANCE OF BUILDING:.
MONDAY, APRIL 22, 1991
ID TREES: GOVERNOR
UP TO NOW HONG KONG HAS BEEN A GRE BUILDINGS THAN TREES AND IT IS TIME TO RE PESS THE AND TO SHOW THAT WE CAN HAVE BOTH, THE SAID TODAY (MONDAY).
GOVERNOR,
BETTER DEAL
AT PLANTING BALANCE A LITTLE SIR DAVID WILSON,
CITY GREEN DAVID SAID TO OUT SET
SPEAKING AT THE OPENING CEREMONY OF THE "PLANT OUR CAMPAIGN 1991" ORGANISED BY THE FRIENDS OF THE EARTH, SIR
IT WOULD THE CAMPAIGN WOULD DO JUST THAT, NOTING THAT PLANT AS MANY TREES AND SHRUBS AS POSSIBLE.
PLEASURE AND BENEFIT WOULD NOT GROW
THE GOVERNOR SAID THAT IF WE WANTED THE OF TREES WE MUST DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT BECAUSE TREES BY THEMSELVES IN THE URBAN ENVIRONMENT WE LIVED IN.
HE NOTED THAT PICTURES OF EARLY HONG KONG
FEW TREES.
SHOWED SURPRISINGLY
THE BANYAN TREES BEHIND CENTRAL DISTRICT AND ALONG NATHAN ROAD; TREES BESIDE THE THE CASUARINA TREES AROUND REPULSE BAY; THE MIMOSA
WERE KONG HONG
ISLAND ROADS OF LANTAU; AND THE WOODED HILLSIDES ON ALL THE RESULT OF EARLY TREE-PLANTING EFFORTS, SIR DAVID SAID.
TREE
HE SAID THE FRIENDS OF THE EARTH HAD MADE A GOOD START ON
OF THE URBAN SERVICES DEPARTMENT, PLANTING AND IT HAD THE SUPPORT WHILE THE HIGHWAYS DEPARTMENT WAS HELPING TO PLANT TREES ALONG ROADS.
"PRIVATE SECTOR SUPPORT TOO WAS GROWING," HE SAID.
THAT ARE
THEY
ENVIRONMENT
INVOLVED; ALREADY "I COMMEND THOSE COMPANIES HAVE SET AN EXAMPLE OF PUBLIC SERVICE AND CONCERN FOR THE
SIR DAVID SAID. WHICH I HOPE OTHERS WILL FOLLOW,
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URBCO'S GREENING PROGRAMME RECEIVES COMMUNITY SUPPORT
THE URBAN COUNCIL'S CONTINUING GREEN AND PLEASANT CITY "PLANT OUR CITY CONCERN GROUP.
KONG A EFFORT ΤΟ MAKE HONG
A WHEN (MONDAY) WAS GIVEN A BOOST TODAY GREEN PROGRAMME" WAS LAUNCHED BY AN ENVIRONMENTAL
TREE
THE VOLUNTARY PROGRAMME WAS INITIATED BY THE
PLANTINGS EARTH" WITH THE AIM OF ENCOURAGING MORE YOUTH GROUPS AND SOCIAL ORGANISATIONS THROUGHOUT THE URBAN AREAS.
"FRIENDS OF THE BY SCHOOLS,
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