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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1988

COMMUNITY SUPPORT FOR MEASURES AGAINST VICE NUISANCES

(AMENDMENT}

OF

FEEDBACK ON THE PUBLIC CONSULTATION ON THE CRIMES

FOR THE PROPOSAL TO OVERWHELMING SUPPORT BILL 1988 HAS INDICATED BETTER CONTROL NUISANCES ASSOCIATED WITH VICE THROUGH THE REMOVAL OFFENSIVE SIGNBOARDS AND THE IMPLEMENTATION OF A CLOSURE ORDER SCHEME, LAN, SAID THE REGIONAL SECRETARY FOR HONG KONG AND KOWLOON, MR DAVID TODAY (SATURDAY).

BILL

WHICH ENDED DURING THE CONSULTATION PERIOD ON THE WHITE

SOCIETY OF ON SEPTEMBER 1, 1988, COMMENTS WERE RECEIVED FROM THE LAW

12 BOARDS, 12 DISTRICT HONG KONG, THE HONG KONG BAR

IN COMMITTEES

SIX AREA DISTRICT FIGHT CRIME COMMITTEES, DISTRICTS AND TWO OWNERS' CORPORATIONS, MR LAN SAID.

ASSOCIATION,

NINE

WILL BE CURRENT

WITH A SOUGHT FOR LEGISLATIVE

"THE SECURITY BRANCH IS STUDYING THESE PUBLIC COMMENTS

BILL. EXCO'S APPROVAL VIEW TO REFINING THE INTRODUCTION OF THE BILL COUNCIL SESSION," HE ADDED.

TO

LEGCO

WITHIN

THE

INFORMATION IN ORDER TO HAVE FIRST HAND OBJECTIONABLE SIGNBOARDS, MR LAN RECENTLY TOURED MONG KOK.

ON THE PROBLEMS OF PORTLAND STREET IN

BUT

AM I

"THEY ARE REALLY AN EYE-SORE; COULD BE SUBSTANTIALLY IMPROVED WITH THE ENACTMENT OF

DISTRICT MONG KOK DISTRICT OFFICE AS WELL AS OTHER

EVERYTHING LEGISLATION, SAID MR LAN.

POSSIBLE TO

SURE THE SITUATION THE BILL. THE OFFICES WILL DO ENFORCING THE

IN POLICE THE ASSIST

BOARD,

THE MONG KOK DISTRICT DISTRICT HAD GIVEN

HE SAID THE MONG KOK DISTRICT FIGHT CRIME COMMITTEE AND AREA COMMITTEES IN THE UNANIMOUS SUPPORT FOR THE MEASURES PROPOSED IN THE BILL.

EARLIER

THIS

WEEK,

MR LAN FACE-LIFT

DURING HIS FAMILIARISATION VISIT VISITED MAN ON BUILDING AT POPLAR STREET, WHICH WAS GIVEN A FOLLOWING A RECENT $300,000 RENOVATION PROGRAMME CARRIED OUT WITH

BUILDING THE ASSISTANCE BY

DISTRICT OFFICE.

MANAGEMENT

CO-ORDINATION

BUILDINGS

THE TEAM OF THE

IN MONG

THE KOK,

ON THE MANAGEMENT

LIKE OTHER OLD MULTI-STOREY 10-STOREY MAN ON BUILDING, BUILT 20 YEARS AGO, WAS PREVIOUSLY VERGE OF BECOMING A SLUM AS A RESULT OF A HOST OF BUILDING PROBLEMS.

WITH THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE TEAM IN 1986,

OF 39 BATCH FIRST THE OF SELECTED AS ONE IMPROVEMENT.

THE BUILDING WAS

BUILDINGS TARGET

FOR

/AS A