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Friday, October 29, 1971

ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

Membership Widely Representative

Government is to establish an Advisory Committee on Environmental

Pollution on land and water.

The Committee will be headed by Mr. H.M.G. Foregate, J.P.,

an Unofficial Member of the Urban Council and General Manager of the

Hong Kong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company.

Other members of the Committee will be widely representative

of the principal interests involved together with the heads of government

departments concerned with the environment.

The Committee will have the following terms of reference:-

to keep under review the state of the environment as regards land and water pollution in Hong Kong; and

* to advise the Governor on the measures which might

broadly be taken to control such pollution.

A Government spokesman said that environmental pollution in

all its forms was a matter of growing public concern throughout the world,

and that in Hong Kong there was a growing awareness of the problem where

it was clearly a matter of especial concern because of the size of the

population and our limited land resources.

The new Committee will supplement the work of the existing

advisory Committee on Air Pollution in advising Government on all matters

regarding pollution on land and water.

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