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DAILY INFORMATION BULLETIN
SUNDAY, MAY 2, 1976
WELFARE PROJECTS FOR SAI KUNG VILLAGES
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PROJECTS RANGING IN COMPLEXITY FROM PIPING STREAM WATER TO A REMOTE VILLAGE ON HIGH ISLAND TO INSTALLING A CLEAN AIR FILTER IN A PUBLIC LAVATORY AT SHA KOK ME1 WERE ARRANGED BY STAFF OF THE DISTRICT OFFICE SAI KUNG DURING THE 1975/76 FINANCIAL YEAR.
MONEY FOR THE PROJECTS, TOTALLING $420,000, WAS PROVIDED OUT OF THE DISTRICT OFFICE'S LOCAL PUBLIC WORKS" (LPW) VOTE.
DURING THE YEAR, 142 PROJECTS WERE UNDERTAKEN, MOSTLY FOR VILLAGE WELFARE. SOME WERE TOTALLY FINANCED FROM L.P.W. FUNDS. WHILE OTHERS PARTLY BY VOLUNTARY AGENCIES SUCH AS CARE AND THE PENINSULA LIONS CLUB. ONE PROJECT WAS SUPERVISED ON BEHALF OF THE CHINESE TEMPLES COMMITTEE.
THE JOBS WERE CARRIED OUT BY CONTRACTORS, BY PRISON LABOUR OR BY THE VILLAGERS THEMSELVES WHO WERE PROVIDED WITH THE MATERIALS.
MATERIALS WERE ALSO GIVEN TO CREW OF THE ROAL NAVY MINEHUNTER, H.M.S. MONKTON, WHO REPAIRED A PLAYGROUND ON KAU SAI ISLAND.
THE DISTRICT OFFICE ORGANISED A NUMBER OF WORK CAMPS IN MORE REMOTE VILLAGES FOR STUDENTS WHO, USUALLY ACCOMMODATED IN SCHOOL BUILDINGS WHILE CARRYING OUT JOBS, UNDERTOOK SUCH TASKS AS CLEARING LITTER OR MENDING FOOTPATHS AND PIERS.
TWO IMPORTANT JOBS, EACH COSTING ABOUT $25,000, WERE REPAIRING LANDSLIDE DAMAGE AT KAU SAI ISLAND AND TAI WAN TAU IN CLEARWATER BAY, RESULTING FROM HEAVY RAINFALL ON APRIL 30 LAST YEAR. MR. JAMES WILSON, ASSISTANT DISTRICT OFFICER SAI KUNG, WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR ADMINISTERING THE L.P.W. VOTE, SAID: THESE WERE PARTICULARLY DIFFICULT JOBS BECAUSE THE WORK HAD TO BE DONE BY HAND DUE TO THE REMOTENESS OF THE LOCATIONS.+
THE MOST EXPENSIVE PROJECT WAS CONSTRUCTING A DAM AT LEUNG SHUEN WAN SO THAT TAP WATER COULD BE PROVIDED TO THE FISHING VILLAGE OF TUNG A ON HIGH ISLAND. THIS COST $96,000.
ANOTHER COSTLY PROJECT WAS THE CONSTRUCTION OF A $53,000 SOCCER PITCH AT HO CHUNG VILLAGE ON SAI KUNG ROAD, FOR USE BY A GROUP OF VILLAGES IN THE AREA.
THE DISTRICT
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