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they all must make a concerted effort to achieve total

public response to the very simple rule: litter should

go in the bin or the recption point and nowhere else.

Some will break this rule; let the public rebuke

their anti-social carelessness

and ridicule them

spoils for all the village, the town, the countryside or the

beach. Litter wardens and park rangers and police are

there to give support, and they will do their duty with

zeal. But it is to the public to whom I appeal in the

first instance to correct the thoughtless. If necessary

there are the courts to do justice on litterbugs.

Ladies and gentlemen, I must pay my tribute to the Clean

Hong Kong New Territories Advisory Committee, the Heung Yee

Kuk, the District Boards, and the New Territories

Administration who have set up this campaign. Never before

have the New Territories mobilised themselves to this extent

in so worthy a cause. I pledge you my personal support and

that of your Government. The New Territories are the oldest,

the most beautiful, and the most rapidly developing part

of Hong Kong. All working together, we can also make it the

cleanest.

I have much pleasure in launching the New

Territories part of the Clean Hong Kong Campaign and will

closely watch its progress,