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ammunition bunkers. At the moment it is looked after by the Urban Services Department. Unless we could not find enough staff to look after it, I don't think vandalism would happen to that area. The construction of a war time museum or something similar would be one of the many features department would consider.
MR. JOSEPH CHAN YUEK-SUT (in Cantonese):-Mr. Chairman, Dr. Samuel WONG said that about 800 people had been issued with free passes to enable them to gain access in that area between 6 and 9 a.m. Does that mean that after 9 a.m. charged passes will be issued instead? My second question is: if we are to issue too many free passes, will that cause inconvenience to campers for using the facilities in the camping area?
DR. SAMUEL P. W. WONG (in Cantonese): Mr. Chairman, I think Mr. Joseph CHAN has not visited the Park. Approach to the upper fort in fact is just outside the holiday village area. Since it is still within the barracks area, we have to issue passes to identify all visitors. Law and order in that particular area had not been good in previous years and that is the reason why passes are still considered necessary. All passes are issued free of charge, whether use before or after 9 a.m. Besides, walking after 9 a.m. would not be regarded as morning walk anyway.
MR. JOSEPH CHAN YUEK-SUT (in Cantonese):--Mr. Chairman, can people be allowed to go to upper fort up and down after 9 a.m.? Since they don't have to go inside the park, is it still necessary to issue passes to them?
DR. SAMUEL P. W. WONG (in Cantonese):-Mr. Chairman, whether it is necessary or not is a question which can be answered by the department. I think there is a good case for issuing such passes. I understand people are allowed to go uphill or downhill after 9 a.m. But, I think 6 a.m. to 9 a.m. may be the best time for morning walk.
5. MISS CHRISTINA TING YUK-CHEE, asked the following question (in Cantonese): Could this Council be informed that
(1) if an Announcement of Public Interest (API) be made to discourage the public from patronizing illegal cooked-food hawkers who carry pans of boiling oil? (as similar to the one currently being advertised on TV about a hawker selling beef stripes 'cow organs' on the street).
(2) if the Hawker Review Working Group under the Market and Street Traders Select Committee suggests to the court imposing heavier fines on these hawkers?
MR. HILTON CHEONG-LEEN, CHAIRMAN OF THE MARKETS AND STREET TRADERS SELECT COMMITTEE replied as follows (in English):-Mr. Chairman, the first question concerns the production of an API to discourage the public from patronizing unlicensed cooked food hawkers using boiling oil.
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The Council's policy is to discourage the public from patronizing all unlicensed cooked food hawkers and not only those using boiling oil. The current TV and radio API on the danger of patronizing unlicensed cooked food produced in 1987 by the Inter-departmental Committee on Public Education on Food Hygiene. The emphasis is on the danger of consuming food prepared and handled under unhygienic conditions, rather than on the narrow aspect of possible danger caused by the spilling of boiling oil. The Committee will meet in March to review the effectiveness of the public education efforts in the past year, and the Department will take the opportunity to bring to the Committee's attention Miss TING's concern on the potential danger posed by hawkers carrying boiling oil.
In addition to the TV and radio API, the following public education activities are also included in the publicity programme to discourage the public from patronizing unlicensed cooked food hawkers:
(a) Seminars on food hygiene for both primary and secondary school teachers;
(b) Health education talks and seminars on food hygiene for area committees, mutual aid committees, owners corporations, students and other interested groups;
(c) Posters on the danger of patronizing unlicensed cooked food hawkers and on the prevention of diarrheal diseases for public display, particularly in schools and factory areas;
(d) Publicity leaflets for distribution to the general public;
(e) Television and radio interviews and contributions to newspaper health columns;
(f) Press releases and 24-hours telephone hotline service providing taped information on food hygiene;
(g) Broadcast of taped messages on food hygiene from special mobile vans at hawker concentration areas near ferry piers, bus termini, MTR, schools and factory areas etc.; and
(h) Distribution of updated lists of licensed food factories selling snacks and lunch boxes to schools to encourage the students to patronize licensed food outlets.
The Inter-departmental Committee on Public Education on Food Hygiene was formed in late 1986 comprising representatives from Municipal Services Branch, Urban Services Department, Regional Services Department, Education Department, Department of Health, City and New Territories Administration and Information Services Department, to plan for and co-ordinate publicity on health education, food hygiene and related environmental issues, and this includes public education efforts against illegal food hawkers.
I also would like the Committee to study ways obtaining the active co-operation of District Boards, Area Committees and district-based community organizations in putting across the message to the public.
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ammunition bunkers. At the moment it is looked after by the Urban Services Department. Unless we could not find enough staff to look after it, I don't think vandalism would happen to that area. The construction of a war time museum or something similar would be one of the many features department
would consider.
MR. JOSEPH CHAN YUEK-SUT (in Cantonese):-Mr. Chairman, Dr. Samuel WONG said that about 800 people had been issued with free passes to enable them to gain access in that area between 6 and 9 a.m. Does that mean that after 9 a.m. charged passes will be issued instead? My second question is: if we are to issue too many free passes, will that cause inconvenience to campers for using the facilities in the camping area?
DR. SAMUEL P. W. WONG (in Cantonese): Mr. Chairman, I think Mr. Joseph CHAN has not visited the Park. Approach to the upper fort in fact is just out- side the holiday village area. Since it is still within the barracks area, we have to issue passes to identify all visitors. Law and order in that particular area had not been good in previous years and that is the reason why passes are still considered necessary. All passes are issued free of charge, whether use before or after 9 a.m. Besides, walking after 9 a.m. would not be regarded as morning walk anyway.
MR. JOSEPH CHAN YUEK-SUT (in Cantonese):--Mr. Chairman, can people be allowed to go to upper fort up and down after 9 a.m.? Since they don't have to go inside the park, is it still necessary to issue passes to them?
DR. SAMUEL P. W. WONG (in Cantonese):-Mr. Chairman, whether it is necessary or not is a question which can be answered by the department. I think there is a good case for issuing such passes. I understand people are allowed to go uphill or downhill after 9 a.m. But, I think 6 a.m. to 9 a.m. may be the best time for morning walk.
5. MISS CHRISTINA TING YUK-CHEE, asked the following question (in Cantonese): Could this Council be informed that
(1) if an Announcement of Public Interest (API) be made to discourage the public from patronizing illegal cooked-food hawkers who carry pans of boiling oil? (as similar to the one currently being advertised on TV about a hawker selling beef stripes 'cow organs' on the street).
(2) if the Hawker Review Working Group under the Market and Street Traders Select Committee suggests to the court imposing heavier fines on these hawkers?
MR. HILTON CHEONG-LEEN, CHAIRMAN OF THE MARKETS AND STREET TRADERS SELECT COMMITTEE replied as follows (in English):-Mr. Chairman, the first question concerns the production of an API to discourage the public from patronizing unlicensed cooked food hawkers using boiling oil.
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The Council's policy is to discourage the public from patronizing all un- licensed cooked food hawkers and not only those using boiling oil. The current TV and radio API on the danger of patronizing unlicensed cooked food produced in 1987 by the Inter-departmental Committee on Public hawkers was Education on Food Hygiene. The emphasis is on the danger of consuming food prepared and handled under unhygienic conditions, rather than on the narrow aspect of possible danger caused by the spilling of boiling oil. The Committee will meet in March to review the effectiveness of the public education efforts in the past year, and the Department will take the opportunity to bring to the Committee's attention Miss TING's concern on the potential danger posed by hawkers carrying boiling oil.
In addition to the TV and radio API, the following public education activities are also included in the publicity programme to discourage the public from patronizing unlicensed cooked food hawkers:
(a) Seminars on food hygiene for both primary and secondary school
teachers;
(b) Health education talks and seminars on food hygiene for area com- mittees, mutual aid committees, owners corporations, students and other interested groups;
(c) Posters on the danger of patronizing unlicensed cooked food hawkers and on the prevention of diarrheal diseases for public display, particu- larly in schools and factory areas;
(d) Publicity leaflets for distribution to the general public;
(e) Television and radio interviews and contributions to newspaper health
columns;
Press releases and 24-hours telephone hotline service providing taped information on food hygiene;
(g) Broadcast of taped messages on food hygiene from special mobile vans at hawker concentration areas near ferry piers, bus termini, MTR, schools and factory areas etc.; and
(h) Distribution of updated lists of licensed food factories selling snacks and lunch boxes to schools to encourage the students to patronize licensed food outlets.
The Inter-departmental Committee on Public Education on Food Hygiene was formed in late 1986 comprising representatives from Municipal Services Branch, Urban Services Department, Regional Services Department, Education Department, Department of Health, City and New Territories Administration and Information Services Department, to plan for and co-ordinate publicity on health education, food hygiene and related environmental issues, and this includes public education efforts against illegal food hawkers.
I also would like the Committee to study ways obtaining the active co- operation of District Boards, Area Committees and district-based community organizations in putting across the message to the public.
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