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TUESDAY, JANUARY 25, 1977
PRISON STAFF AND INMATES RAISE $10,000
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STAFF AND INMATES OF TWO PRISONS DEPARTMENT INSTITUTIONS RAISED MORE THAN $10,000 IN LAST SUNDAY'S COMMUNITY CHEST +WALK FOR A MILLION+.
FOURTEEN INMATES AND 25 STAFF FROM THE TAI LAM CENTRE FOR WOMEN WERE JOINED BY FOUR FORMER INMATES TO RAISE A TOTAL OF JUST OVER $4,000. ALSO IN THE GROUP WERE 20 INMATES AND 14 STAFF OF THE TAI LAM ADDICTION TREATMENT CENTRE WHO RAISED ABOUT $7,200.
THE WALKERS WERE SPONSORED BY STAFF AND INMATES OF THE TWO CENTRES THE TONG FUK ADDICTION TREATMENT CENTRE, THE HEI LING CHAU ADDICTION TREATMENT CENTRE, FRIENDS AND RELATIVES.
ALL INMATES TAKING PART WERE ELIGIBLE FOR 24 HOURS HOME LEAVE, BUT VOLUNTEERED TO USE THE TIME TO RAISE FUNDS FOR THE COMMUNITY CHEST.
A SPOKESMAN FOR THE PRISONS DEPARTMENT, SENIOR SUPERINTENDENT (TREATMENT OF DRUG ADDICTS), MR. LO KWOK-KUEN, SAID THAT THE PARTICIPATION OF THE INMATES SHOWED THAT THEY WERE ON THE ROAD TO COMPLETE REHABILITATION.
+THEY ARE SHOWING US THAT THEY CAN NOW BEHAVE IN A RESPONSIBLE MANNER AND BENEFIT THEMSELVES AND SOCIETY, HE SAID.
WATER CUT
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WATER SUPPLY TO A NUMBER OF PREMISES ON THE PEAK AND IN KWUN TONG WILL BE TURNED OFF FOR FIVE HOURS FROM 1 A.M. ON THURSDAY (JANUARY 27) TO ENABLE THE WATER SUPPLIES DEPARTMENT TO CARRY OUT NIGHT LEAKAGE TEST.
ON THE PEAK, THE AFFECTED AREA IS BOUNDED BY ROSMEAD ROAD, WATFORD ROAD, GUILDFORD ROAD, COOMBE ROAD, MIDDLE GAP ROAD. MT. CAMERON ROAD, HOUSE NOS. 21, 22, 26, 27, 29, 30, 33, 35, 36, 38, 40, 44, 46 AND 50 MAGAZINE GAP ROAD NOS. 52, 54 AND 56 PEAK ROAD AND 1-3 BARKER ROAD.
IN KWUN TONG, THE AFFECTED AREA IS BOUNDED BY SHU! NING STREET, KA LOK STREET, HIP WO STREET AND YUET WAH STREET, INCLUDING BLOCK NOS. 1 TO 11 WO LOK ESTATE, TSZ LOI LANE" AND SHUI WO STREET.