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Friday, October 20, 1972
MRS. ROWE COMPLETES SERIES OF VISITS TO WELFARE INSTITUTIONS
Mrs. G.T. Rowe, wife of the Director of Social Welfare, today
completed her series of visits to welfare institutions with a call at the
St. Joseph's Home for the Aged in Clear Water Bay Road, Ngau Chi Wan.
Mrs. Rowe chose that her last call before leaving Hong Kong on
the retirement of her husband as Director of Social Welfare should be at
the Home of the Aged because this was the Home she saw in 1947 after
her first arrival in Hong Kong.
She was accompanied on her visit by Mrs. Evelyn Doe, Principal
Social Welfare Officer.
The Home is one of two run by the Little Sisters of the Poor for
the aged of both sexes over 60, irrespective of nationality or creed.
At present there are about 400 old people in the Home.
The series of visits by Mrs. Rowe began in 1969 and had since
continued intermittantly.
Mrs. Rowe yesterday also visited the Kowloon Women's Welfare Club
Nursery in Kowloon City.
The Club was founded in 1955 by 12 ladies under the chairmanship
of the headmistress of the Pooi To Middle School to help solve the problem
of child care for working parents. The Nursery provides day care services
for 65 children between the ages of two and six. Fees charged for each child
is $30 a month.
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