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CLERK WEDS
Mr Eric Joseph Bechtel, a clerk, and Miss Chan Kam-ying were married at the Rosary Church, Kowloon, yesterday. The bride is the daughter of the late Mr and Mrs Chan Chuen-lau, and the bridegroom is the son of Mr and Mrs Lawrence J. Bechtel.
SIX-STOREYED MEDICAL WING
A six-storey estate welfare building will be opened in the Sau Mau Ping Resettlement Estate on Friday, October 17, by the Director of the Lutheran World Service, the Rev K. L. Stumpf.
Built at a cost of about $300,000, it will provide
Big treat for 68,700 residents there with
forty boys
Soldiers of the Hongkong Regiment (The Volunteers)
low-cost medical
treatment,
a library, a day nursery, family services, a play area and rooms for group activi- ties.
These services were. pre- entertained 40 boys from theviously distributed all Western District Youth Club the estate,
£
sterday with competitions be
basketball,
itg-of-war and
rifle shooting.
table tennis, roof.
.22 calibre
over
now
but would centralised under one
The setting up of estate The boys were also given sult of a policy endorsed by welfare buildings is the re- the opportunity to see some the Executive of the Regiment's equipment 1965 by which social welfare
Council at the Headquarters, Sports services for new resettlement Road, Happy Valley.
provided,
communities are
in
To wind up the day, the through self-contained build- boys were given dinner, fol-ings cach serving 50,000 lowed with soft drinks.
people.
NEW PEAK SET
FOR
MACAO'S ODHNER
TOURISM
The year 1969 will set a new record for foreign tourists visiting Macao.
The Macao Tourist In- formation Bureau said
that the previous record, To inspect
set in 1966, would be passed this month.
With more than two months of the year still to go- which includes the XVI Macao Grand Prix the tourist figure for the year would set a new boom record.
The record forecast came
Service
schools
The Secretary of State for with the announcement of Education and Science, Mr tourist figures for September, Edward Short,
arrived yes- during which a total of 11,624 terday on a three-day in- foreign tourists —
tour excluding spection
of Service Portuguese entered Macao, schools in the Colony, follow- The total figure for the first ing a similar mission to nine months of the year is Singapore. 116,194 leaving less than
Mr Short said on arrival 6,000 to pass the record set
his tour would enable the in 1966 when 122,188 foreign Ministry of Defence to assess visitors went to Macao.
the efficiency of the Service The Bureau said that dur- schools in the area, but re- ing the first nine months ofjected speculations that it was 1969, 730,229 Hongkong rest- connected with Britain's dents visited Macao, including
military withdrawal from Southeast Asia. 75,932 in September.
Wallet lost
on bus
con-
An Indian tourist lost his wallet taining U.S.$568 during a bus trip from the Kai Tak airport area to Tsimshatsui,
The tourist, aged 35, suspected the wallet was stolen from his left front trouser pocket on Tues- day evening on a route No 5 bus.
He immediately report- ed to the police after alighting from the bus at Tsimshatsui. No arrests has been made.
ng order in the lobby
"It has basically nothing to do with that, except that in Singapore the teachers have a number of worries about where they are going from there and so on," he said.
Mr Short will visit a num- ber of schools including the Gun Club School, the Vic- toria Junior School, the St George's School, and the Hongkong Technical School during his stay.
Meanwhile, the Deputy Under Secretary of State at the Foreign and Common- wealth Office, Sir Leslie Monson, will arrive today on nine-day familiarisation
а tour.
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compact with a min operating keys. Eas figures and distinct symbols for the variou tions and results. features include credit electric correction of entered numbers, non petition and sub-total
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Luggage is checked in the foyer of the Presi- dent Hotel yesterday, while a workman sweeps up rubbish from where a pile of suitcases and travelling bags had stood.
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