XN000022-1983-11-17 — Page 15

14

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1983'

NOTE TO EDITORS:

YOU ARE INVITED TO COVER THE MONG KOK HOME SAFETY CAMPAIGN SEMINAR AND CLOSING CEREMONY TO BE HELD ON SATURDAY (NOVEMBER 19) AT THE FUNCTION ROOM ON THE TOP FLOOR OF AMBASSADOR HOTEL ON NATHAN ROAD, TSIM SHA TSUI,

THE FIRST TWO TALKS +CHILD SAFETY AT HOME+ AND +CHILD CARE AT HOME WILL START AT 3 PM. THE PRIZE-PRESENTATION AND CLOSING CEREMONY WILL BEGIN AROUND 4.15 PM, AFTER A SHORT TEA BREAK.

THE TALKS ON +CRIME PREVENTION AT HOME+ AND +F IRE PREVENTION+ WILL BE GIVEN AFTERWARDS.

CLEARANCE OPERATION FOR FOUR ISLANDS

***

A LARGE-SCALE STREET OBSTRUCTION CLEARANCE EXERCISE, WHICH WILL LAST MORE THAN 18 MONTHS, WILL BE LAUNCHED IN THE ISLANDS DISTRICT ON MONDAY (NOVEMBER 21).

THE EXERCISE, INVOLVING THE REMOVAL OF ILLEGAL CANOPIES, DEBRIS, REFUSE, GOODS AND ARTICLES WHICH CAUSE OBSTRUCTION, WILL BE CONDUCTED ON CHEUNG CHAU, PENG CHAU, LAMMA AND LANTAO ON A ROTATION BASIS.

EXPLAINING DETAILS OF THE EXERCISE TODAY (THURSDAY), THE ASSISTANT DISTRICT OFFICER, MR RAYMOND WONG SAID THIS PROJECT WAS INITIATED BY THE ISLANDS DISTRICT'S STREET MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE, WHICH WAS ESTABLISHED IN OCTOBER 1982 UNDER THE ISLANDS DISTRICT MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE.

+IT AIMS AT IDENTIFYING CASES OF STREET OBSTRUCTION IN THE WHOLE DISTRICT AND CLEARING THEM STEP BY STEP, HE SAID.

+THE ULTIMATE OBJECTIVE IS TO BRING ABOUT AN OVERALL ENVIRONMENTAL IMPROVEMENT IN THE DISTRICT.+

FOR THE EXERCISE, THE FOUR ISLANDS WILL BE DIVIDED INTO 17 ZONES BASED ON AN EVEN DISTRIBUTION OF STREET OBSTRUCTION CASES IN EACH ZONE.

CLEARANCE WILL BE CONDUCTED IN PRIORITY OF HAZARDS AND OFFENSIVENESS, PROXIMITY AND THE EXTENT OF THE AREA.

TO ENSURE THAT THE CLEARANCE WILL NOT BE CENTRED ON ONE SINGLE AREA ALL THE TIME, THE FOLLOWING METHODS WILL BE ADOPTED:- (A) A PRIORITY SEQUENCE FOR THE FOUR ISLANDS WILL FIRST

BE SET UP ;

/(B) A