mark certificates of registration and the mounting of all film records on aperture cards and the indexing thereof. The cards are read on an Archival Reader and a Viewer-Printer is also held which produces from the microfilm card a dry positive photo-copy of 81′′× 11′′ in about ten seconds from the push of a button. The Unit also completed the microfilming of over 52,000 pages of births and deaths registration records. All individual exposures were subsequently mounted on aperture cards and indexed to facilitate searching and viewing. Current pages of registration records in district births and deaths registries are being microfilmed by a team which makes regular weekly visits to the registries in Kowloon and the New Territories. These microfilm copies are also mounted on aperture cards and deposited in the General Register Office, at which are centralized all records of births and deaths in the Colony. In addition the Unit undertook for security purposes the microfilming of some records relating to the liquidation of The Canton Trust and Commercial Bank, Ltd.
Social and Welfare
187. The Department has a Charitable and Benevolent Fund supported by voluntary contributions by members of the staff of the rank of Class I Clerks and above. No levy has been made since 1962-63, but there was miscellaneous income amounting to $63.20 during the year. An interest-free loan was made to a Messenger, and at the end of the year the amount of the fund was $761.60.
188. The Departmental Football Team participated in the 1966 Governor's Cup Tournament, a seven-a-side miniature football tourna- ment sponsored by the Hong Kong Chinese Civil Servants' Association. Mr. LEUNG Shiu-hay, Assistant Registrar Class II, won the First Place in the 200-meter race and the Third Place in Shot Putt in the Inter- departmental Athletic Meet sponsored by the same body. Mr. LEUNG also represented Hong Kong in the 100-meter and 200-meter races and 100-meter relay at the 5th Asian Games in Bangkok. He was elected by the Amateur Athletic Association of Hong Kong to be 'Athlete of the year 1966-67', an honour coveted by all local athletes.
189. The usual informal Christmas Eve party was held in the Land Office where members of all other branches met to exchange seasonal greetings. The opportunity was taken to present to Mr. FUNG Boa-ying, who was retiring after 25 years service with the Government, a slide projector as a token of the high regard in which he is held by his colleagues in the Department.
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