FRIDAY, MAY 7, 1982
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BIG CLEAN UP IN SQUATTER AREAS
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THE WORKING WEEK FROM MAY 3 TO MAY 7 SAW FRENZIED ACTIVITY ON THE SQUATTER CLEANSING FRONT.
TWENTY-FIVE SQUATTER SETTLEMENTS WERE CLEARED OF RUBBISH IN THE FIVE DAYS, AS A RESULT OF THE HARD WORK OF URBAN SERVICES DEPARTMENT'S CLEANSING SQUADS.
THE BIGGEST PUSH WAS IN THE SPRAWLING SQUATTER AREAS OF KWUN TONG AND WONG TAI SIN, EACH INVOLVING. FIVE VILLAGES.
BUT THE SMALLER SQUATTER AREAS WERE NOT NEGLECTED EITHER TWO VILLAGES IN SHAM SHUI PO AND TWO IN WESTERN WERE CLEANED.
IN THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT WHERE SQUATTER COMMUNITIES ARE SMALL AND WIDELY DISPERSED, SEVEN SETTLEMENTS WERE CLEANED WHILE IN EASTERN, FOUR VILLAGES WERE BLITZED.
THE SQUATTER CLEANSING PHASE OF THE CLEAN HONG KONG CAMPAIGN IS ENTERING ITS THIRD WEEK AND WHEN THIS PHASE ENDS. ALL OF HONG KONG'S SQUATTER SETTLEMENTS WILL HAVE BEEN CLEANED.
TEMPORARY CURTAILMENT OF TRAM SERVICES
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TRAM SERVICES, EXCEPT THOSE BETWEEN SHAU KEI WAN AND HAPPY VALLEY, WILL BE CURTAILED THIS SATURDAY (MAY 8) FOR MTR CONSTRUCTION WORKS.
THE LAST DEPARTURES WILL BE ABOUT ONE HOUR EARLIER THAN USUAL, THAT IS FROM SHAU KEI WAN TO WESTERN MARKET AT 10.48 PM; FROM NORTH POINT TO WHITTY STREET AT 10.42 PM; FROM NORTH POINT TO WESTERN MARKET AT 11.01 PM; FROM HAPPY VALLEY TO KENNEDY TOWN AT 10.41 PM; FROM HAPPY VALLEY TO WHITTY STREET AT 10.52 PMĮ FROM HAPPY VALLEY TO WESTERN MARKET AT 11.08 PM; FROM KENNEDY TOWN TO HAPPY VALLEY AT 11.16 PM; FROM WHITTY STREET TO NORTH POINT AT 11.19 PM; FROM WHITTY STREET TO HAPPY VALLEY AT 11.20 PM; AND FROM WESTERN MARKET TO SHAU KEI WAN, NORTH POINT AND HAPPY VALLEY ALL AT 11,28 PM.
STARTING FROM 10.48 PM SPECIAL TRAM SERVICES WILL BE OPERATED FROM SHAU KE WAN TO TERMINATE AT THE CHINESE METHODIST CHURCH AT JOHNSTON ROAD.
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