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made to maintain the existing standards of environmental cleanliness and hygiene in urban and rural areas, which have been achieved by immense efforts since the campaign began in November 1972, and to improve on these standards wherever possible.
It is proposed that "Keep Hong Kong Clean" Campaign activity in 1974-75 will be concentrated in three main areas of action:
Firstly "District Clean-up" Operation
Each of the 15 newly created Urban Services Districts in Hong Kong, Kowloon and the New Territories will be allocated a period of approximately two weeks within the months of April/May or September/October 1974 to carry out an intensive localized operation to clean-up the known black spots in the district and generally to spread the campaign message to the public within the district. These operations will be planned in detail within the district by a local committee of Government and Area or District Committee representatives and will aim at achieving substantial community involvement. Publicity will be "low key", that is, it will be generated within each district rather than by mass media such as radio, television and the press. The overall aim of this operation is to keep the campaign in the public eye without using intensive centralised campaign methods. The action will be provided by U.S.D. staff, equipment and transport in liaison with community involvement.
Additional law enforcement will be supplied during each district's clean-up fortnight by means of a team of Litter Wardens who will move from one district to another.
Secondly "Clean Our Beaches" Operation
This operation will be mounted in the months of June, July and August 1974, that is, during the height of the swimming season and will attempt to achieve a distinct improvement in the overall environment of the 12 gazetted beaches of the urban area, which are all on Hong Kong Island, and on the 25 gazetted beaches of the New Territories. A Working Group is at present being set up to examine in depth all possible ways and means of achieving this objective. This operation will not be a centrally directed campaign but will proceed on similar lines as regards resources and publicity as the "District Clean-up" operation. The District Urban Services Officer and the City District Officer (or District Officer in the N.T.) within whose areas the gazetted beaches lie will be the linch-pins in this operation and once again it is hoped to obtain considerable community involvement.
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Thirdly—a "Keep Hong Kong Clean" Campaign month.
The main intensive campaign effort in 1974-75 will take place in either late 1974 or early 1975 and will last one month only. This campaign month will concentrate on the cleanliness of the streets in the urban areas and in the villages of the N.T. and will probably revolve around another block by block, village by village cleansing and junk removal exercise. This campaign will be supported by Colony-wide centrally directed mass media publicity.
The Council has approved a budget of $4 million for the campaign in 1974-75. The Council intends to do all it can to ensure that the "Keep Hong Kong Clean" Campaign remains in the public eye in the forthcoming financial year and that in addition to work carried out by the Urban Services Department there is a large measure of involvement from all sections of the community.
MOTION
DR. DENNY M. H. HUANG, VICE-CHAIRMAN OF THE FOOD HYGIENE SELECT COMMITTEE, moved the following motion:
Mr. Chairman,
On behalf of the Chairman of the Food Hygiene Select Committee, I rise on the motion standing in my name:
"That the Food Business (Amendment) By-laws 1974 be made under Section 56 of the Public Health & Urban Services Ordinance, Cap. 132."
The main purpose of these amendments is to rectify a number of minor deficiencies found to exist in the principal By-laws, and to cease to require the licensing of fresh provision shops selling fruit and vegetables.
I beg to move.
MR. PETER P. K. NG (in English): ---Mr. Chairman, I beg to second the motion.
The question was put.
The motion was carried unanimously.
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made to maintain the existing standards of environmental cleanliness and hygiene in urban and rural areas, which have been achieved by immense efforts since the campaign began in November 1972, and to improve on these standards wherever possible.
It is proposed that "Keep Hong Kong Clean" Campaign activity in 1974-75 will be concentrated in three main areas of action:
Firstly "District Clean-up" Operation
Each of the 15 newly created Urban Services Districts in Hong Kong, Kowloon and the New Territories will be allocated a period of approximately two weeks within the months of April/May or September/October 1974 to carry out an intensive localized operation to clean-up the known black spots in the district and generally to spread the campaign message to the public within the district. These operations will be planned in detail within the district by a local committee of Government and Area or District Committee representa- tives and will aim at achieving substantial community involvement. Publicity will be "low key", that is, it will be generated within each district rather than by mass media such as radio, television and the press. The overall aim of this operation is to keep the campaign in the public eye without using intensive centralised campaign methods. The action will be provided by U.S.D. staff, equipment and transport in liaison with community involvement.
Additional law enforcement will be supplied during each district's clean-up fortnight by means of a team of Litter Wardens who will move from one district to another.
Secondly "Clean Our Beaches" Operation
This operation will be mounted in the months of June, July and August 1974, that is, during the height of the swimming season and will attempt to achieve a distinct improvement in the overall environ- ment of the 12 gazetted beaches of the urban area, which are all on Hong Kong Island, and on the 25 gazetted beaches of the New Ter- ritories. A Working Group is at present being set up to examine in depth all possible ways and means of achieving this objective. This operation will not be a centrally directed campaign but will proceed on similar lines as regards resources and publicity as the "District Clean-up" operation. The District Urban Services Officer and the City District Officer (or District Officer in the N.T.) within whose areas the gazetted beaches lie will be the linch-pins in this operation and once again it is hoped to obtain considerable community involvement.
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The main intensive campaign effort in 1974-75 will take place in either late 1974 or early 1975 and will last one month only. This campaign month will concentrate on the cleanliness of the streets in the urban areas and in the villages of the N.T. and will probably revolve around another block by block, village by village cleansing and junk removal exercise. This campaign will be supported by Colony- wide centrally directed mass media publicity.
The Council has approved a budget of $4 million for the campaign in 1974-75. The Council intends to do all it can to ensure that the "Keep Hong Kong Clean" Campaign remains in the public eye in the forthcoming financial year and that in addition to work carried out by the Urban Services Department there is a large measure of involve- ment from all sections of the community.
MOTION
DR. DENNY M. H. HUANG, VICE-CHAIRMAN OF THE FOOD HYGIENE SELECT COMMITTEE, moved the following motion:-
Mr. Chairman,
On behalf of the Chairman of the Food Hygiene Select Committee, I rise on the motion standing in my name:
"That the Food Business (Amendment) By-laws 1974 be made under Section 56 of the Public Health & Urban Services Ordinance, Cap. 132."
The main purpose of these amendments is to rectify a number of minor deficiencies found to exist in the principal By-laws, and to cease to require the licensing of fresh provision shops selling fruit and vegetables.
I beg to move.
MR. PETER P. K. NG (in English): ---Mr. Chairman, I beg to second the motion.
The question was put.
The motion was carried unanimously.
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