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SUNDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1991
PUBLIC URGED TO KEEP COUNTRYSIDE CLEAN
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SIR
MOUNTAINEERING UNION,
ΤΟ HELP KEEP THE
THE HON PRESIDENT OF THE HONG KONG DAVID AKERS-JONES, TODAY (SUNDAY) URGED RESIDENTS COUNTRYSIDE CLEAN.
THE SPEAKING AT
LAUNCHING
ALL
MOUNTAINS" AT THE LION ROCK COUNTRY COULD HELP BY SIMPLY PUTTING BETTER STILL, BY TAKING THEM HOME.
CEREMONY
OF "THE DAY OF CLEAN PARK, SIR DAVID SAID EVERYONE
LITTER
IN THE BINS PROVIDED
OR
"THE DAY OF
CLEAN
MOUNTAINS"
IS
JOINTLY ORGANISED
BY THE
AGRICULTURE AND FISHERIES DEPARTMENT,
THE HONG KONG MOUNTAINEERING ACTIVITIES
UNION (HKMU), AND THE HONG KONG FEDERATION OF COUNTRYSIDE (HKFCA) TO ACTIVATE THE LARGEST POSSIBLE AUDIENCE TO THE NEEDS BETTER PROTECTION OF THE MOUNTAIN ENVIRONMENT.
SIR
FOR A
THE
NATURAL BEST DESIGNATED AS COUNTRY
HAD SOME OF HONG KONG SAID DAVID COUNTRYSIDE WITH OVER 40 PER CENT OF ITS LAND PARKS.
THE URBAN AREAS AND ENJOYMENT, HE
"THESE HILLY AREAS FORM A SCENIC BACKDROP TO AND PROVIDE A MAJOR SOURCE OF OUTDOOR RECREATION SAID.
HE NOTED THAT EVERY YEAR OVER NINE MILLION PEOPLE PARKS AND SOME 4,000 TONNES OF LITTER WERE LEFT BEHIND.
"THOUGH
THE
MAIN
BULK OF
IS LEFT
VISITED THE
BINS FROM COLLECTED LITTER
ON THE
IN GROUND PROVIDED IN THE PARK, THERE IS STILL LITTER
ON STEEP BARBECUE, PICNIC OR CAMPING SITES, ALONG FOOTPATHS AND EVEN SLOPES, HE SAID.
SIR DAVID COMMENDED THE
FOR
MOBILISING ON THIS DAY OF CLEAN
HKMU AND THE HKFCA THEIR MEMBERS TO HELP CLEAN UP THE MOUNTAINS MOUNTAINS.
HAD HIKING AND
GROUPS MOUNTAINEERING HE ALSO NOTED THAT 16
SCHEME" AND HAD ASSISTED ON ENROLLED IN THE "HIKING LITTER WARDEN MANY OCCASIONS TO CLEAN UP THE MOUNTAINS AND TO ADVISE OTHER TO KEEP THE COUNTRYSIDE CLEAN.
ALSO OFFICIATING AT TODAY'S CEREMONY WAS AN ASSISTANT OF AGRICULTURE AND FISHERIES, MR FRANK LAU.
VISITORS
DIRECTOR
AND THE THE KAM SHAN COUNTRY
AT TODAY'S FUNCTION, MORE THAN 80 MEMBERS OF THE HKMU HKFCA CONDUCTED CLEAN-UP AT THE LION ROCK AND PARKS.
PROFESSIONAL ROCK SIR DAVID AND MR LAU ALSO LED A TEAM OF 15
AMAH ROCK WHERE CLIMBERS TO CLEAN UP THE SUMMIT AND STEEP SLOPES OF ACCESSIBILITY IS POSSIBLE ONLY FOR THE EXPERIENCED MOUNTAINEERS.
OF THE TWO BODIES IN COUNTRYSIDE THROUGHOUT
ON THE COMING FOUR SUNDAYS, MEMBERS CONTINUE THEIR CLEANING EXPEDITIONS KONG.*
WILL
HONG
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