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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1985

CONCERNING THE MESS AT VICTORIA PARK, HE SAID: +IT WOULD SEEM THAT A SMALL BUT SELFISH GROUP OF PARENTS LET THEIR CHILDREN BEHAVE EXACTLY AS THEY WISHED, THROWING RUBBISH AROUND THE PARK WILLY NILLY WITHOUT A THOUGHT OF CIVIC PRIDE - AND WITHOUT A THOUGHT OF PARENTAL RESPONSIBILITY AND THE NEED TO SET A GOOD EXAMPLE.

+ALSO, IT SEEMS INESCAPABLE THAT PARENTS THEMSELVES ALSO TURNED INTO LITTERBUGS FOR THE FESTIVAL, LEADING THE WAY IN A DISGRACEFUL LITTER-FEST.+

TO COPE WITH THE MESS AT VICTORIA PARK, MR LAU SAID THAT THE URBAN SERVICES DEPARTMENT HAD TO MÓBILISE NO FEWER THAN 24 EXTRA CLEANSING STAFF, TAKING THE TOTAL NUMBER ON CLEAN-UP WORK THERE TO 39 WORKERS.

+THESE PEOPLE HAD TO WORK FROM SEVEN O'CLOCK IN THE MORNING UNTIL SIX THAT NIGHT TO GATHER UP AND TAKE AWAY A TOTAL OF 720 LARGE BAGS OF RUBBISH,+ HE SAID.

AT KO SHAN PARK, 60 BAGS OF LITTER HAD TO BE GATHERED COMPARED WITH THE USUAL DAILY COLLECTION OF 20 BASKETS.

MR LAU SAID: THE COUNCIL'S AIM IN STAGING THESE FESTIVALS IS TO PROVIDE GOOD. CLEAN FUN FOR THE FAMILY AND I EMPHASIZE THE WORD +CLÉ AN+ BUT NOT TO TURN OUR PARKS INTO THE RUBBISH-STREWN MESSES THAT WE FOUND TO OUR DISGUST TWO FORTNIGHTS AGO.+

+RIP-OFF+ BARS UNDER CLOSE WATCH

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WITH THE HELP OF THE CONSUMER COUNCIL AND THE POLICE FORCE, THE LIQUOR LICENSING BOARD HAS FULL DETAILS OF COMPLAINTS AGAINST +RIP-OFF+ BARS AND THE ESTABLISHMENTS CONCERNED.

+THE BOARD IS NOW WATCHING THESE PREMISES CLOSELY AND WILL NOT STAND IDLY BY AND ALLOW THEM TO CONTINUE FLEECING UNSUSPECTING TOURISTS, SAID MR PETER C.K. CHAN, CHAIRMAN OF THE LIQUOR LICENSING BOARD, WHEN ADDRESSING THE OPEN MEETING OF THE URBAN COUNCIL TODAY.

HE REPEATED THE BOARD'S RECENT PUBLIC WARNING THAT ANY CONVICTION UNDER THE RELEVANT REGULATIONS RELATING TO THE BOARD'S POWER MAY LEAD TO THE TERMINATION OF THE LICENCE OF THE PREMISES CONCERNED.

/IN HIS