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Wednesday, January 2, 1974

A LITTLE REMINDER TO SWITCH OFF THOSE UNNECESSARY LIGHTS

More than 200, con special "switch off" stickers are being

distributed by the government to various organisations and firms throughout

Hong Kong as part of its continuing drive to economise on the use of

fuel.

The stickers, in English and Chinese, are designed to be placed

beside electric light and power switches to remind people of the need to

save fuel.

They are being distributed to many commercial and industrial

undertakings, factories, mutual aid and area committees and all government

departments.

The sticker → an inch square exhorts people in both languages

to switch off and save.

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Twenty-five thousand posters also carrying the theme of saving

fuel now for later, are being distributed throughout Hong Kong.

A government spokesman said today that the current drive to save

fuel will continue to encourage people to play their part in making voluntary

restraints, no matter how small.

"The more we save now," he said, "the less chance there is of

mandatory restrictions being imposed at a later stage."

The spokesman said it was estimated that the overall savings

achieved so far both voluntary and mandatory

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amounted to some five per

cent with another one per cent to come from daylight saving. But the anti-

cipated shortfall in fuel supplies to Hong Kong in the first quarter is 10

per cent.

The difference, he said, would still have to be made good and for

this reason "economy must be the watchword".