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Thursday, August 24, 1972

CAMPAIGN TO RECRUIT MORE LABOURERS FOR STREET CLEANING

The Urban Services Department is conducting an intensive campaign to

recruit enough labourers to ensure that Hong Kong and its streets are kept clean

and to be ready for the "Clean Hong Kong campaign now underway.

With the 10 per cent pay increase announced this week, the job now

pays a basic monthly wage of $510, plus cost of living allowances. Fringe

benefits include free medical services, free uniforms, and for single workers

free hostel accommodation.

The Cleansing Division of the department alone employs over 4,800

labourers doing various cleaning jobs throughout the city.

The target of the current campaign is to recruit about 300 labourers

for the Cleansing Division and many hundrede more for other divisions of the

Urban Services.

"Rapid development of the urban areas in recent years has increased

the work-load to such an extent that it has left the department's labour force

short, an Urban Services spokesman said today.

"This is most evident in the Cleansing Division which copes with the

enormous amount of refuse and litter that increasingly affluent Hong Kong

society leaves behind each day."

A temporary recruiting office will be set up in Kowloon Park, on

September 5 to handle applications for the post of labourer from 9.30 a.m.

to 5 p.m.

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