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"I regret, Mr. Cheong-Leen, that I am unable to add anything to the reply to your earlier question."
MR. H. CHEONG-LEEN :—A supplementary question, Mr. Chairman. This question was previously asked about a year ago and at that time, if I remember correctly, Government stated that it was considering whether or not to allocate the management of all the functions of the City Hall or part of the City Hall, to this Council. One year has passed and it seems rather peculiar for Government to take one whole year to make up its mind. Would the Chairman be good enough to ask Government if possible to present a reply to this Council next month, at the next monthly meeting of this Council?
CHAIRMAN :--I should be very happy to refer your comments to Government.
MR. K. A. WATSON :-May I ask another supplementary question, please? As you perhaps know, in 1869 the then Duke of Edinburgh opened the City Hall. As I understand there is a possibility of pile driving starting in January next year, do you not agree that it would be a happy and appropriate link with the old days if the present Duke of Edinburgh could be persuaded to lay the foundation stone of the new City Hall when he visits here early next year?
CHAIRMAN :—I shall be happy, Mr. Watson, to refer your comments to Government.
MR. H. CHEONG-LEEN asked the following question
"Although main streets in the urban areas are reasonably clean, it seems that despite all the efforts of the Urban Services Department many side streets are every day still deplorably filled with rubbish indiscriminately discarded by residents or hawkers; what steps have the Chairman taken in the past to ask the Kaifong Associations to encourage residents to keep their streets cleaner and tidier?"
THE CHAIRMAN replied as follows:-
"No particular steps appear to have been taken in the past to ask the Kaifong Associations to encourage residents to keep their streets cleaner and tidier. My own impression is that, by itself, such action would
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be unlikely to have any effect since much of the refuse is discarded by hawkers who are seldom residents of the streets in question. But, if you so wish, I have no objection to placing the matter before the relevant Select Committee with the suggestion that they consider whether an anti-litter campaign should be introduced and, if so, how it should be conducted."
MR. H. CHEONG-LEEN :—A supplementary question, Mr. Chairman. Would you, Mr. Chairman, be willing to suggest to the Kaifong also to provide groups of lion dancers?
CHAIRMAN:-I shall be happy to put that suggestion to the relevant Select Committee, Mr. Cheong-Leen. I am not sure that there are quite so many lion dancers in the Colony!
DR. P. F. Woo asked the following question :—
"To abate the menace of mosquitoes, Council has recently asked for the co-operation of the contractor firms in the Colony to eradicate all possible mosquito-breeding places in building sites. Would the Chairman indicate whether any co-operation has been obtained and what result of the abatement of the menace has been achieved?"
THE CHAIRMAN replied as follows:-
This concerns the response from building contractors. "A letter was sent to over 600 registered Building Contractors early in July; only eight replies had been received by 20th August, and a further letter was sent to the Building Contractors' Association Ltd. asking them to urge their members to co-operate with the Council. The Association's reply indicates that this has been done, and a further 6 replies have since been received from individual contractors, making a total of fourteen replies.
The Pest Control Office is in the process of making contact with the representatives of the various firms involved, and it is still too early to say what effect this contact has had on the general problem of mosquito breeding. If desired, I shall be happy to have an analysis made of breeding places discovered
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"I regret, Mr. Cheong-Leen, that I am unable to add anything to the reply to your earlier question."
MR. H. CHEONG-LEEN :—A supplementary question, Mr. Chairman. This question was previously asked about a year ago and at that time, if I remember correctly, Government stated that it was considering whether or not to allocate the management of all the functions of the City Hall or part of the City Hall, to this Council. One year has passed and it seems rather peculiar for Government to take one whole year to make up its mind. Would the Chairman be good enough to ask Government if possible to present a reply to this Council next month, at the next monthly meeting of this Council?
CHAIRMAN :--I should be very happy to refer your comments to Government.
MR. K. A. WATSON :-May I ask another supplementary question, please? As you perhaps know, in 1869 the then Duke of Edinburgh opened the City Hall. As I understand there is a possibility of pile driving starting in January next year, do you not agree that it would be a happy and appropriate link with the old days if the present Duke of Edinburgh could be persuaded to lay the foundation stone of the new City Hall when he visits here early next year?
CHAIRMAN :—I shall be happy, Mr. Watson, to refer your comments to Government.
MR. H. CHEONG-LEEN asked the following question
"Although main streets in the urban areas are reasonably clean, it seems that despite all the efforts of the Urban Services Department many side streets are every day still deplorably filled with rubbish indis- criminately discarded by residents or hawkers; what steps have the Chairman taken in the past to ask the Kaifong Associations to encourage residents to keep their streets cleaner and tidier?"
THE CHAIRMAN replied as follows:-
"No particular steps appear to have been taken in the past to ask the Kaifong Associations to encourage residents to keep their streets cleaner and tidier. My own impression is that, by itself, such action would
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be unlikely to have any effect since much of the refuse is discarded by hawkers who are seldom residents of the streets in question. But, if you so wish, I have no objection to placing the matter before the relevant Select Committee with the suggestion that they consider whether an anti-litter campaign should be introduced and, if so, how it should be conducted."
MR. H. CHEONG-LEEN :—A supplementary question, Mr. Chairman. Would you, Mr. Chairman, be willing to suggest to the Kaifong also to provide groups of lion dancers?
CHAIRMAN:-I shall be happy to put that suggestion to the relevant Select Committee, Mr. Cheong-Leen. I am not sure that there are quite so many lion dancers in the Colony!
DR. P. F. Woo asked the following question :—
"To abate the menace of mosquitoes, Council has recently asked for the co-operation of the contractor firms in the Colony to eradicate all possible mosquito- breeding places in building sites. Would the Chair- man indicate whether any co-operation has been obtained and what result of the abatement of the menace has been achieved?"
THE CHAIRMAN replied as follows:-
This concerns the response from building contractors. "A letter was sent to over 600 registered Building Con- tractors early in July; only eight replies had been received by 20th August, and a further letter was sent to the Building Contractors' Association Ltd. asking them to urge their members to co-operate with the Council. The Association's reply indicates that this has been done, and a further 6 replies have since been received from individual contractors, making a total of fourteen replies.
The Pest Control Office is in the process of making contact with the representatives of the various firms involved, and it is still too early to say what effect this contact has had on the general problem of mosquito breeding. If desired, I shall be happy to have an analysis made of breeding places discovered
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