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FRIDAY, JUNE 14, 1974.
SHOP TENANTS INVITED TO DISCUSS TENANCY ISS
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THE HOUSING AUTHORITY HAS INVITED 23 SHOP TENAN FROM GROUP ✔ ''B' ESTATES TO DISCUSS THE SHOP TENANCY ISSUE IN A PRIVATE R MEETING TO BE HELD AT THE URBAN COUNCIL CHAMBER ON A DATE YET
TO BE FIXED.
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THIS FOLLOWS RECENT REPRESENTATIONS MADE BY THE TENANTS TO I THE HOUSLAG AUTHORITY WHICH, WITH A MEMBERSHIP OF 20 INCLUDING
EIGHT URBAN COUNCILLORS, WAS SET UP IN APRIL LAST YEAR TO BUILD AND MANAGE PUBLIC HOUSING ESTATES.
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THE TENANTS WERE VERBALLY INFORMED OF THE INVITATION WHEN THEY CALLED AT THE HOUSING DEPARTMENT IN MA TAU KOK ROAD, KOWLOON, THIS - (FRIDAY) MORNING.
THEY WERE TOLD THAT THEY SHOULD NOMINATE TEN REPRESENTATIVES TO ACT AS THEIR SPOKESMAN WHILE THE REMAINING 13 SHOULD ATTEND AS OBSERVERS.
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THE DEPARTMENT WILL INFORM THEM IN WRITING OF THE DATE OF THE MEETING AS SOON AS IT IS FIXED, POSSIBLY WITHIN THE NEXT THREE WEEKS.
THE DIRECTOR OF HOUSING, MR. DONALD LIAO, HAD SEEN THE GROUP ON THREE SEPARATE OCCASIONS DURING THE PAST COUPLE OF MONTHS WHEN THEY CALLED.
RURAL SCIENCE INSPECTOR GOES ON RETIREMENT
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MR. KAN KAM-KWING, AN ASSISTANT MASTER SERVING AS AN INSPECTOR OF RURAL SCIENCE IN THE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT'S ADVISORY INSPECTORATE, IS GOING ON PRE-RETIREMENT LEAVE TOMORROW AFTER 19 YEARS' SERVICE.
ON BEHALF OF HIS FRIENDS AND COLLEAGUES, THE ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF EDUCATION (CHIEF INSPECTOR OF SCHOOLS), MR. ARTHUR BROWN, TODAY PRESENTED HIM WITH A RETIREMENT GIFT.
MR. KAN BEGAN HIS CAREER AS A LECTURER AT THE NATIONAL KWANGSI UNIVERSITY AND LATER, AS AN ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR WHEN THAT UNIVERSITY MOVED TO THE PREMISES OF THE HAI NAM UNIVERSITY.
ON ARRIVAL IN HONG KONG MR. KAN, WHOSE SUBJECT SPECIALITY IS HORTICULTURE, WORKED FIRST AS A PRODUCTION MANAGER IN A CANNING FACTORY AND THEN AS A PROPRIETOR OF A FARM IN YUEN LONG.
WITH THE INTRODUCTION OF RURAL SCIENCE IN PRIMARY SCHOOLS IN THE EARLY 1950'S MR. KAN TOOK UP THE TEACHING OF THE SUBJECT AT THE YAU KUNG SCHOOL, HA CHUEN, PING SHA IN 1955.
THE FOLLOWING YEAR MR. KAN JOINED THE GOVERNMENT SERVICE AND WAS POSTED TO YUEN LONG GOVERNMENT PRIMARY SCHOOL WHERE HE TAUGHT RURAL SCIENCE FOR EIGHT YEARS.
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IN SEPTEMBER 1964 HE TRANSFERRED TO THE TONG MEI ROAD GOVERNMENT A.M. SCHOOL AND FOUR YEARS LATER TO THE ADVISORY INSPECTORATE.
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