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THURSDAY, JUNE 10, 1993

PUI-CHUNG (IN

CANTONESE):

PRESIDENT. MONTHS

MR AND

'GREENING' HONG A LOT OF

THIS IS

OUR

AND

THANK YOU MR MR CHIM GOVERNOR, UP TO THIS POINT YOU HAVE BEEN HERE FOR ELEVEN

RELATION TO CONSTITUTIONAL ONE DAY AND WE HAVE HEARD PROPOSALS IN PACKAGE AND I'M AGAINST THAT AND YET IN RELATION TO KONG I'M IN FULL SUPPORT. MR GOVERNOR YOU HAVE ANSWERED QUESTIONS AND FIFTEEN MEMBERS HAVE ASKED QUESTIONS ACTUALLY AND IT HAS SHOWN US THAT YOU ARE VERY KNOWLEDGEABLE, MR GOVERNOR, AND WITHOUT DOUBT. NOW HONG KONG IS AMONG THE FOUR DRAGONS IN ASIA, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IS IN NO WAY BEHIND THE OTHER THREE DRAGONS

STREETS WE ARE BBHIND YET IN

TO THE CLEANLINESS OF OUR RELATION

CANADA AND SINGAPORE AND WE ARE ALSO BEHIND OTHER COUNTRIES SUCH AS AUSTRALIA. SO MR GOVERNOR WOULD YOU ASK THE URBAN COUNCIL TO MAKE OUR 30 THAT OUR STREETS MUCH CLEANER AND USE MORE RESOURCES TO DO SO, STREETS CAN BE CLEANER AND APART FROM OUR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT WE WILL ALSO BE ABLE TO GIVE A BETTER IMPRESSION TO VISITORS TO HONG THAT IS ACTUALLY YOUR RESPONSIBILITY, MR GOVERNOR, TO MAKE THE COUNCIL TO DO A BETTER JOB AND IT'S AN EASY TASK AFTER ALL.

KONG? URBAN

AND

FROM

GOVERNOR: THE HONOURABLE MEMBER IS QUITE RIGHT TO SAY THAT ONE OF THE FIRST IMPRESSIONS THAT VISITORS GET OF ANY COMMUNITY IS THE QUALITY OF ITS STREETS AND THE CARE WHICH PEOPLE TAKE OF THEIR URBAN ENVIRONMENT. I THINK THAT WE HAD BETTER RECOGNISE THAT THE FIRST RESPONSIBILITY FOR HONG KONG, THE ENVIRONMENT, IN THAT SENSE, BELONGS TO THE PEOPLE OF LITTER ISN'T PUT THERE BY SOME UNKNOWN MALIGN HAND, IT'S PUT THERE BY MOST ALL OUR HANDS. IT'S PUT THERE BY SMOKERS WHO ARE, ACCORDING TO INDEPENDENT SURVEYS, AND I DON'T WISH TO INSULT ANY SMOKERS PRESENT IN THE CHAMBER, AMONG THE WORST LITTERERS BECAUSE OF CIGARETTE STUBS EMPTY PACKETS. IT'S PUT THERE BY PEOPLE WHO DROP THE WRAPPINGS

DROP THEIR FOOD THEY BUY IN THE STREETS, 1T'S THERE FROM PEOPLE WHO

THE PLASTIC BAGS WHICH FETCH UP FLOATING IN THE HARBOUR OR DECORATING

SO THERE ARE A BEACHES OF THE TERRITORY AND NOT JUST THE STREETS.

ALTOGETHER SIX COLLECTION OF GUILTY PARTIES AND THEY MAY NOT NUMBER

SIX MILLION. IN MILLION BUT THEY AT LEAST NUMBER A PROPORTION OF ORDER NOT TO HAVE LITTER, THERE IS ONE VERY SIMPLE, BOTH NECESSARY AND LITTER. SUFFICIENT CONDITION, AND THAT IS THAT PEOPLE SHOULDN'T DROP

EDUCATION ABOUT HOW AND I HOPE THAT WE CAN BEGIN BY BETTER PUBLIC

OTHER AWFUL LITTER IS. WE DO A LOT OF THINGS MUCH, MUCH BETTER THAN

SOME ABOUT LITTER, PEOPLE BUT I DON'T THINK WE'RE YET AS GOOD AS

KINGDOM ABOUT THOUGH IN MY EXPERIENCE WE ARE BETTER THAN THE UNITED

ASSURE THIS LEGISLATIVE LITTER BUT THAT IS NO GREAT SHAKES I CAN COUNCIL. I WILL CERTAINLY BE HAPPY TO TALK TO THE URBAN COUNCIL ABOUT WHAT MORE WE CAN DO TOGETHER, GOVERNMENT AND URBAN COUNCIL, WITH

LITTER THE DISTINGUISHED

BUT

TO DEAL

THAT

MOST I

THE SOME OF SUSPECT PROBLEM

WOULD BEGIN BY OF THE URBAN COUNCIL REPRESENTATIVES AGREEING WITH ME THAT THE FIRST THING TO DO IS TO STOP PEOPLE DROPPING SEE ANYBODY IT IN THE FIRST PLACE. I HOPE THAT WHENEVER ALL OF US DROPPING LITTER WE VERY POLITELY TAP THEM ON THE SHOULDER AND ASK THEM WHETHER THEY'VE LOST SOMETHING. IT SOMETIMES INTRODUCES ONE TO NEW AND MEANINGFUL SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS. IT'S CERTAINLY A VERY THINK OF STOPPING LITTERING AND I HOPE WE CAN ALL DO IT.

GOOD WAY I

MR PRESIDENT: THE GOVERNOR WILL TAKE A SPECIAL QUESTION FROM MR

CHIN-SHEK.

LAU

/MR LAU