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TUESDAY, JULY 6, 1988

IMPROVING ENVIRONMENT REQUIRES COMMUNITY EFFORT: GOVERNOR

IMPROVING THE ENVIRONMENT IS SOMETHING WHICH IS GOING TO NEED A GREAT DEAL OF EFFORT FROM THE WHOLE COMMUNITY, THE GOVERNOR, SIR DAVID WILSON, SAID THIS (TUESDAY) EVENING.

SIR DAVID WAS SPEAKING IN AN INTERVIEW IN THE FIRST EISODE

A RADIO TELEVISION HONG KONG WHICH WAS SHOWN ON TELEVISION.

OF

ENVIRONMENT SERIES, "ALL ABOUT US",

HE SAID THE TIME HAD COME FOR HONG KONG TO USE ITS INCREASED PROSPERITY, AND INCREASED AWARENESS OF THE PROBLEM, TO IMPROVE WHOLE OF THE ENVIRONMENT FOR THE GOOD OF THE WHOLE COMMUNITY.

"THIS IS SOMETHING WHICH INVOLVES THE GOVERNMENT GOVERNMENT IS DETERMINED TO PLAY ITS PART, SIR DAVID SAID.

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HE POINTED OUT THAT DURING THE LAST 10 OR 20 YEARS HONG KONG HAD DEVELOPED AT A TREMENDOUS PACE, AND THIS HAD BROUGHT GREAT ADVANTAGES TO THE COMMUNITY AS A WHOLE AND HAD ALSO BROUGHT PROBLEMS.

"ONE OF THOSE PROBLEMS WHICH WE CAN SEE

DAY IS THE PROBLEM OF POLLUTION," HE SAID.

ALL

AROUND US EVERY

REFERRING TO GOVERNMENT ACTION, HE SAID THERE WERE PLANS TO. SPEND UP TO $15 BILLION IN THE NEXT 10 YEARS IN INFRASTRUCTURAL PROJECTS TO IMPROVE THE ENVIRONMENT.

SIR DAVID SAID IMPROVING THE INDUSTRIALISTS THINKING ABOUT HOW ΤΟ INDUSTRIAL WASTE.

AND, ABOVE ALL, IT INVOLVED EVERY

COMMUNITY,

ENVIRONMENT INVOLVED THE DEAL WITH THE PROBLEM OF

INDIVIDUAL MEMBER OF THE

THAT INVOLVEMENT RANGED FROM WHETHER OR NOT MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY SUPPORTED THE EFFORT BEING PUT INTO IMPROVING THE COMMUNITY, TO THE SIMPLE FACT OF WHETHER PEOPLE TOOK LITTER HOMB FROM COUNTRY PARKS AND MADE THEIR OWN INDIVIDUAL EFFORT TO IMPROVE THE ENVIRONMENT.

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PLACE

"I BELIEVE THE TIME HAS NOW COME WHEN ALL OF US AS COMMUNITY WANT TO MAKE EFFORTS TO MAKE HONG KONG AN EVEN BETTER TO LIVE IN," SIR DAVID ADDded.

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