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SUNDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1991

PUBLIC URGED TO KEEP COUNTRYSIDE CLEAN

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SIR

MOUNTAINEERING UNION,

ΤΟ HELP KEEP THE

THE HON PRESIDENT OF THE HONG KONG DAVID AKERS-JONES, TODAY (SUNDAY) URGED RESIDENTS COUNTRYSIDE CLEAN.

THE SPEAKING AT

LAUNCHING

ALL

MOUNTAINS" AT THE LION ROCK COUNTRY COULD HELP BY SIMPLY PUTTING BETTER STILL, BY TAKING THEM HOME.

CEREMONY

OF "THE DAY OF CLEAN PARK, SIR DAVID SAID EVERYONE

LITTER

IN THE BINS PROVIDED

OR

"THE DAY OF

CLEAN

MOUNTAINS"

IS

JOINTLY ORGANISED

BY THE

AGRICULTURE AND FISHERIES DEPARTMENT,

THE HONG KONG MOUNTAINEERING ACTIVITIES

UNION (HKMU), AND THE HONG KONG FEDERATION OF COUNTRYSIDE (HKFCA) TO ACTIVATE THE LARGEST POSSIBLE AUDIENCE TO THE NEEDS BETTER PROTECTION OF THE MOUNTAIN ENVIRONMENT.

SIR

FOR A

THE

NATURAL BEST DESIGNATED AS COUNTRY

HAD SOME OF HONG KONG SAID DAVID COUNTRYSIDE WITH OVER 40 PER CENT OF ITS LAND PARKS.

THE URBAN AREAS AND ENJOYMENT, HE

"THESE HILLY AREAS FORM A SCENIC BACKDROP TO AND PROVIDE A MAJOR SOURCE OF OUTDOOR RECREATION SAID.

HE NOTED THAT EVERY YEAR OVER NINE MILLION PEOPLE PARKS AND SOME 4,000 TONNES OF LITTER WERE LEFT BEHIND.

"THOUGH

THE

MAIN

BULK OF

IS LEFT

VISITED THE

BINS FROM COLLECTED LITTER

ON THE

IN GROUND PROVIDED IN THE PARK, THERE IS STILL LITTER

ON STEEP BARBECUE, PICNIC OR CAMPING SITES, ALONG FOOTPATHS AND EVEN SLOPES, HE SAID.

SIR DAVID COMMENDED THE

FOR

MOBILISING ON THIS DAY OF CLEAN

HKMU AND THE HKFCA THEIR MEMBERS TO HELP CLEAN UP THE MOUNTAINS MOUNTAINS.

HAD HIKING AND

GROUPS MOUNTAINEERING HE ALSO NOTED THAT 16

SCHEME" AND HAD ASSISTED ON ENROLLED IN THE "HIKING LITTER WARDEN MANY OCCASIONS TO CLEAN UP THE MOUNTAINS AND TO ADVISE OTHER TO KEEP THE COUNTRYSIDE CLEAN.

ALSO OFFICIATING AT TODAY'S CEREMONY WAS AN ASSISTANT OF AGRICULTURE AND FISHERIES, MR FRANK LAU.

VISITORS

DIRECTOR

AND THE THE KAM SHAN COUNTRY

AT TODAY'S FUNCTION, MORE THAN 80 MEMBERS OF THE HKMU HKFCA CONDUCTED CLEAN-UP AT THE LION ROCK AND PARKS.

PROFESSIONAL ROCK SIR DAVID AND MR LAU ALSO LED A TEAM OF 15

AMAH ROCK WHERE CLIMBERS TO CLEAN UP THE SUMMIT AND STEEP SLOPES OF ACCESSIBILITY IS POSSIBLE ONLY FOR THE EXPERIENCED MOUNTAINEERS.

OF THE TWO BODIES IN COUNTRYSIDE THROUGHOUT

ON THE COMING FOUR SUNDAYS, MEMBERS CONTINUE THEIR CLEANING EXPEDITIONS KONG.*

WILL

HONG

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