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SUNDAY, MARCH 12, 1978

OVER 40,000 SUMMONSES ISSUED TO LAP SAP CHUNGS LAST YEAR

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TSUEN WAN'S LAP SAP CHUNGS RECEIVED THE LARGEST NUMBER OF LITTER SUMMONSES ISSUED BY THE URBAN SERVICES DEPARTMENT LAST. YEAR, ACCORDING TO STATISTICS PUBLISHED TODAY.

A TOTAL OF 41,870 SUMMONSES WERE ISSUED BY THE USD DURING THE 12 MONTH PERIOD AND 4,984 WENT TO LITTERBUGS IN TSUEN WAN.

AREAWISE, THE BREAKDOWN OF STATISTICS SHOWS THAT 15,435 ERE ISSUED IN THE NEW TERRITORIES, 15,211 ON HONG KONG ISLAND AND 11,224 IN KOWLOON. THE TOTAL AMOUNT OF FINES PAID BY LITTER OFFENDERS WAS $2,049,687.

COMMENTING ON THESE FIGURES, A SPOKESMAN FOR THE

USD CLEANSING DIVISION SAID : +THERE IS AN INDICATION THAT LITTER OFFENDERS ARE USUALLY FOUND IN DENSELY POPULATED AREAS.

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+AND ON AVERAGE, ABOUT 3,074 LITTER OFFENDERS ARE CONVICTED EACH MONTH,+

SINCE MID-MARCH LAST YEAR, THE DEPARTMENT MOUNTED A SERIES OF OPERATIONS THROUGHOUT HONG KONG, KOWLOON AND THE NEW TERRITORIES, IN A BID TO DETER PEOPLE FROM LITTERING. MORE THAN 700 OPERATIONS WERE CARRIED OUT BY THE USD LITTER LARDENS.

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+THE ELITZ OPERATIONS WERE PARTICULARLY SUCCESSFUL AT BEACHES BECAUSE THE PRESENCE OF THE LITTER SQUADS HAD A DETERRENT EFFECT ON BEACH-GOERS AND AS A RESULT MORE PEOPLE MADE USE OF THE LITTERBINS,+ THE SPOKESHAN SAID.

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