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Friday, November 9, 1973
HONG KONG'S BIGGEST-EVER CAREERS EXHIBITION
To Be Staged On Wanchai Reclamation
The Youth Employment Advisory Service of the Labour Department
is to stage Hong Kong's biggest-ever Careers Exhibition as a major feature
of this year's Festival of Hong Kong.
The Commissioner of Labour, Mr. I.R. Price, said today the
exhibition
to be staged by the Service
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would be more than twice
the size of last year's pilot effort by the department in the City Hall.
"Last year's exhibition, which only lasted for a couple of
days, showed that there is a tremendous demand for an exhibition of
this kind," he said.
"We received a very good response at last year's exhibition.
Since then we have received a flood of requests from students, teachers,
parents, and leaders of commerce and industry for a further exhibition."
Mr. Price said this year's enlarged exhibition would occupy
half of the CMA pavilion on the Wanchai Reclamation during the period
of the Festival of Hong Kong. It would be officially opened at 3.00 p.m.
on Friday, November 23 by the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Hong
Kong, Dr. Rayson Huang, and would be open from 10.00 a.m. to 7.00 pal.
every day until Sunday, December 2.
This year we have some 30 participants showing jobs in a wide
range of spheres, covering industry, commerce and government. All in
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all, there will be some 100 jobs shown," he said.
"Young people