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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1984

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+WHAT THE BEATSWEEPERS SWEEP IS PURE AND UNADULTERATED LITTER,+ HE SAID.

+YOU ARE, THEREFORE, SUBSIDISING THE LITTERBUG, HE SAID, +AND IF THAT DOESN'T MAKE YOU ANGRY, IT SHOULD.+

MR YOUNG POINTED THAT THE UC COULD SAVE AS MUCH AS $87 MILLION ANNUALLLY IF THE FREQUENCY OF BEATSWEEPING IN ANY GIVEN PATCH OF URBAN STREET OR PAVEMENT WERE REDUCED FROM THE CURRENT AVERAGE OF THREE TIMES A DAY TO ONCE A DAY.

+ IF PEOPLE LITTERED LESS, THE STREETS WOULD BE CLEANER- IF THE STREETS WERE CLEANER, WE COULD SWEEP THEM LESS OFTEN IF WE SWEPT THEM LESS OFTEN, WE WOULD ALL SAVE MONEY, +

HE ADDED THAT POTENTIAL LITTERBUGS MUST ALSO BE MADE AWARE OF THE FACT THAT THEY, TOO, WERE PAYING DIRECTLY FOR THE IR ANTI- SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR.

+OF COURSE, IT WILL TAKE SOME TIME FOR THIS CONSCIOUSNESS TO SINK IN, MR YOUNG CAUTIONED, BUT THE PROCESS CAN BE ACCELERATED IF WE KEEP POUNDING HOME THE MESSAGE.+

TO ALLAY FEARS THAT THE REDUCTION OF WORK-LOAD MIGHT LEAD TO LAY-OFFS, MR YOUNG SAID THAT STAFF REDUCTION COULD BE ACCOMPLISHED THROUGH ATTRITION RATHER THAN DISMISSAL.

+ ABOUT 200 OF OUR 6 000 BEATSWEEPERS RETIRE EACH YEAR, HE SAID. +AND IF THE STREETS ARE CLEANER WE SIMPLY WILL NOT REPLACE THEM. +

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+AS A RESULT NO ONE WILL SUFFER.+

SCHOOLS' VITAL ROLE IN CIVIC EDUCATION STRESSED

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THE SCHOOL WAS THE MOST IMPORTANT UNIT IN THE PROMOTION OF COMMUNITY OR SOCIAL OR CIVIC EDUCATION, MR MICHAEL LEUNG, DIRECTOR OF EDUCATION SAID TODAY (FRIDAY).

HE WAS SPEAKING AT THE GRADUATION CEREMONY OF THE

KIANGSU-CHEKI ANG COLLEGE IN SHA TIN,

ONE OF THE ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS OF EDUCATION PROMOTED IN HONG KONG SCHOOLS WAS TO HELP PUPILS UNDERSTAND THEIR COMMUNITY AND TO ASSOCIATE THEMSELVES WITH PROBLEMS AND ISSUES WITHIN THE IR NEIGHBOURHOOD OR COMMUNITY.

/+IT IS