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Thursday, January 18, 1973

CLEANLINESS IN COMMON PARTS OF BUILDINGS

Responsibilities Of Occupants

Members of the public are urged to clean up and maintain the

common parts of their buildings in a tidy condition during their customary

clean up operations in their flats before Lunar New Year.

The appeal was made by the Urban Services Department which has

launched a two-week publicity campaign on cleanliness in multi-storey

buildings.

The campaign, which began early this week; is now in full swing.

A spokesman for the Department said: "It is a highly commentable

custom to clean up our dwellings before Lunar New Year, but under the

new litter law tenants should also take good care of the common parts

of their buildings."

The spokesman pointed out that corridors, staircases, roofs,

yards, light-wells, car-parts, awnings and canopies were common parts

of a building.

"Depositing unwanted articles in the common parts of a building,"

he said, "provides harbourages for rats and cockroaches and is liable

to a maximum fine of $2,000 under the Public Cleansing and Prevention of

Nuisance By-laws."

Unwanted articles should be delivered to the nearest junk collection

point of the Urban Services Department for disposal, Addresses of these

collection points can be obtained from the City District Offices.

During the campaign, posters will be sent out to various multi-storey

buildings and alogans will be broadcast from U.S.D. vans.

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