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Monday, January 29, 1973
GOVERNOR TOURS CENTRAL AND WAN CHAI
To See Progress In Cleaning Up Hong Kong
The Governor, Sir Murray MacLehose spent this (Monday) afternoon
touring the back streets in Central and Wan Chai districts to see for himself
some of the progress made in cleaning up Hong Kong.
He was accompanied throughout his visit by the Secretary for Home
Affairs, Mr. D.C.C. Luddington, and the City District Commissioner (Hong
Kong), Mr. David T.K. Wong.
The Governor first arrived at the junction of Old Bailey Strect
and Staunton Street.
The party then proceeded to George's Lane where they saw a piece
of Crown land which had been for years a notorious dumping site. However,
the site was cleared and fenced off last December during the Clean Hong
Kong campaign.
On his way to George's Lane, the Governor stopped and chatted with
a woman passer-by and asked her whether the place looked much better than
before. She agreed.
The Governor later walked to Kwong Hon Terrace. There he saw 14
tenement buildings that lie within the Urban Renewal Scheme area.
At Wa In Fong, he saw a cleansing exercise being carried out by
some 40 volunteers and members of the Central (South-West) Clean Hong Kong
Area Committee under the supervision of the Committee Chairman, Mr. Tang Siu-kei.
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