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one wholly conscious of its own living environment and

anxious to maintain or improve the standard of that

environment.

It is also intended to introduce new

legislation, firm but fair, for dealing with the type of

offender to whom reason and the public good are unimportant,

and to back this legislation, it is intended to introduce

anti-litter squads headed by Litter Wardens, whose principal

object will be to catch or deter litter offenders.

Such a campaign, however, could not even hope to get

off the ground without a massive publicity effort utilising

all the media, hammering home the undesirability of living

amidst litter, and conditioning public attitudes to

enthusiastic support for anti-litter measures, even in

the toughest, least tractable districts. The combined

efforts of the community groups, the support in cash and

kind of the industrial/commercial sector, the considerable

resources of Government in the fields of housing, education,

publicity and public cleansing, and a determination to

succeed on the part of all concerned, can perhaps confound

the defeatists, amaze the cynics, and straighten the spines

of all Hong Kong's citizens with the beginnings of civic

pride. I hope that when that time comes, and a general

appeal is made for assistance in combatting our litter

problem, you will be 100% behind our efforts.

be no thanks, except from posterity.

There may

Finally, let me quote an excerpt from a lecture on

Land Pollution/...