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Friday, August 17, 1973

FACTORIES FINED FOR EMITTING EXCESSIVE DARK SMOKE

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The proprietors of three factories were fined a total of

$3,300 in North Kowloon Magistracy today for offences under the Clean

Air Ordinance.

Two of the factories

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the Mayer Aluminium Limited and the

Hong Kong Rolling Mills Ltd. with two previous convictions each, were

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fined $1,500 and $1,200 respectively.

The other factory fined was the Atlantic Enamel Factory (HK) Ltd.

of Tsuen Wan, the first offender since Tsuen Wan was declared a smoke

control zone on May 15 this year. The factory was fined $600.

All these factories were found guilty of emitting dark smoke

exceeding the permitted period within a Smoke Control Area.

Under the Clean Air Ordinance, it is an offence for an occupier

of any premises within a smoke control area to operate any furnace,

oven, or chimney in such a manner that dark smoke is emitted for more

than six minutes in any period of four hours or for more than three

minutes continuously at any one time.

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