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Monday, August 21, 1972

SIR HUGH TO SEE SUMMER CAMP

The Acting Governor, Sir Hugh Norman-Walker, will visit a summer

camp for underprivileged children organised by the St. John Ambulance Brigade

(Cadets) at Hoi Bun School, Lei Yue Mun, on Wednesday (August 23).

The camp began today and will continue until Saturday. Ambulance

cadets and Nursing cadets of the Brigade have assumed responsibility for the

details.

About 200 children are involved, and the programme includes group

games, sports activities, arts and crafts, road safety demonstrations, and

informal instructions on public health and fire prevention.

There are 500 cadet members in the Brigade, aged between 13 and 18.

Of the number, about 40, under the chairmanship of Ambulance Cadet Wong Tat-chuen,

have been actively engaged on work in connection with the camp in the Hoi Bun

School.

Siz lugh, accompanied by Colonel H.A. de Barros Betelho,

Commissioner of the Brigade, will arrive by launch at Hang Kee, Lei Yue

Mun, and will be net by a reception committee.

On arrival at the school, the Acting Governor and his party will be

welcomed by a guard of honour, Sir Hugh will then visit two classrooms, where

he will see an arts and crafts session and a demonstration on road safety,

public health and fire prevention.

/The visit

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