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Friday, March 8, 1974
DRUG ADDICTS RAISE $10,000 FOR CHARITY
Hong Kong probably leads the world in the fields of treatment
of drug addicts and rehabilitation of young offenders, the Commissioner
of Prisons, Mr. Ton Garner, said today.
"This has happened under a unique programme of the Prisons
Department which involves the co-operation between the staff and the
inmates and there is no better example than the ceremony for which
we are gathered today," he explained.
The prison chief was speaking at a ceremony held in the Tai
Lon Addiction Treatment Centre, at which cheques for almost $10,000
were presented to the Community Chest.
The money was raised by 30 inmates of the treatment contre
and the Chathan Road Training Centre who voluntarily took part in the
"Walk-For-A-Million" held by the Community Chest in Kowloon on February 17.
A number of staff members of the two institutions also joined the walk.
This is the third successive year in which inmates of the
institutions had taken part in the fund-raising walk.
Commenting on the participation of the inmates in the walk,
Mr. Garner said it narked a very important mile-stone within the work
of the Prisons Deparartment in the context of who were involved
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