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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 10, 1988

DUKE OF EDINBURGH TO VISIT HK

WORLD

HONG KONG FROM TODAY ANNOUNCED

HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS, THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH, PRESIDENT WIDE AND FOR NATURE (WWF) INTERNATIONAL, WILL VISIT NOVEMBER 1 TO 4 THIS YEAR, BUCKINGHAM PALACE

(WEDNESDAY).

DETAILED ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE VISIT ARE BEING WILL BE ANNOUNCED ONCE THEY ARE FINALISED,

WORKED OUT AND

EFFORTS TO CLEAN UP TYPHOON SHELTERS

MARINE REFUSE SHELTERS,

OVER 50 PER CENT OF

WAS CONTRIBUTED BY BOAT

IN DWELLERS

THE TYPHOON

MARINE FOR THE A SPOKESMAN DEPARTMENT, MR RODGER TUPPER, SAID TODAY (WEDNESDAY).

FLOATING REFUSE

*ACCORDING TO OUR STATISTICS, 4,442 TONNES OF WERE COLLECTED LAST YEAR. OUT OF THIS, 2,386 TONNES WERE COLLECTED IN THE TYPHOON SHELTERS, HE ADDED.

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THE MARINE DEPARTMENT, IN ORDER TO IMPROVE THE SITUATION,

HAS DEPARTMENT,

UNDERTAKEN CONJUNCTION WITH THE URBAN SERVICES INTENSIVE CLEAN-UP OPERATIONS IN THE TYPHOON SHELTERS FROM APRÍL.

THE

THESE OPERATIONS, WHICH WILL LAST UNTI1. NOVEMBER, ARE

HARBOUR

THE

IN

MORE

PART OF URBAN

BY CLEAN CAMPAIGN KEEP

ORGANISED

JOINT COUNCIL/REGIONAL COUNCIL KEEP HONG KONG CLEAN STEERING COMMITTEE.

A THREE-DAY CLEAN-UP OPERATION THE ABERDEEN TYPHOON SHELTER IN HONG KONG.

SHELTER, THE

STARTED TODAY (WEDNESDAY) IN MOST DENSELY POPULATED TYPHOON

IS THE WORST ABERDEEN TYPHOON SHELTER "THE SITUATION OF THE

KONG. IT' ALONE ACCOUNTS FOR AMONG THE 12 TYPHOON SHELTERS IN HONG OVER 20 PER CENT OF THE FLOATING REFUSE COLLECEĎ IN HONG KONG WATERS, MR TUPPER SAID.

IN

THE LAST YEAR, 906 TONNES OF FLOATING REFUSE WERE COLLECTED IN

THE 1986,

FIGURE WAS ONLY 833 ABERDEEN TYPHOON SHELTER WHILE

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TONNES.

"THE SITUATION