MONDAY, JUNE 13, 1977
GOVERNOR RECEIVES CHEQUE FOR
SCOUTS SILVER JUBILEE PROJECT *****
THE GOVERNOR, SIR MURRAY MACLEHOSE, THIS EVENING ACCEPTED A CHEQUE FOR $1.3 MILLION FOR THE SCOUTS SILVER JUBILEE PROJECT AND PRESENTED CERTIFICATES OF APPRECIATION TO NINE MAJOR DONORS AT A PRESENTATION CEREMONY AT GOVERNMENT HOUSE.
SIR MURRAY AS CHIEF SCOUT OF HONG KONG RECEIVED THE CHEQUE FROM MR. LEO LEE, WHICH WILL BE USED FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE NEW HONG KONG ISLAND REGIONAL HEADQUARTERS OF THE SCOUT ASSOCIATION IN MORRISON HILL, WAN CHAI. MR. LEE IS HIMSELF ONE OF
THE MAJOR DONORS AND CHAIRMAN OF THE ISLAND REGIONAL HEADQUARTERS BUILDING COMMITTEE.
THE NINE DONORS WHO RECEIVED THE CERTIFICATE OF APPRECIATION WERE: SIR SHIU-KIN TANG, MR. LEO LEE, MR. YOUNG HAN-CHIEN, MR. YUNG YAU, MR. HO TIM, MR. CHAN KANG-FOUT, MR. WILLIAM MA CHING-WAI, MR. LAWRENCE C.H. CHU AND MR. HUGO H.H. HUNG.
ANOTHER DONOR, MR. LI DAK-SUM, WHO HAS CONTRIBUTED GENEROUSLY TO THE PROJECT, WAS NOT ABLE TO RECEIVE HIS CERTIFICATE AS HE IS OUT OF HONG KONG.
IN A BRIEF SPEECH, SIR MURRAY SAID HE WAS DELIGHTED THAT THE SILVER JUBILEE PROJECT OF THE SCOUT ASSOCIATION HAD ATTRACTED SUCH A STRONG SUPPORT.
+SIR SHIU-KIN'S PUBLIC SPIRITED GENEROSITY IS PROVERBIAL. HIS INITIATIVE AND THE SUPPORT GIVEN BY THE OTHERS IN THE COMMUNITY INCLUDING THE JOCKEY CLUB, IS AN INSPIRATION TO US ALL,+ SIR MURRAY SAID.
+FOR MANY YEARS THE SCOUT ASSOCIATION HAS BADLY NEEDED A NEW BUILDING ON HONG KONG ISLAND. AS CHIEF SCOUT OF HONG KONG I WOULD LIKE TO RECORD THE PROFOUND THANKS OF THE SCOUT MOVEMENT FOR THE GENEROSITY OF SIR SHIU-KIN AND OTHERS IN THE COMMUNITY AND THE JOCKEY CLUB WHICH HAS ENABLED THE SCHEME TO BECOME A REALITY,+
MR. G.R. ROSS, PRESIDENT OF THE SCOUT ASSOCIATION, IN AN OPENING REMARK EARLIER ALSO PAID TRIBUTE TO SIR SHIU-KIN, WHO CONTRIBUTED $750,000 FOR THE PROJECT, AND OTHER MAJOR DONORS, INCLUDING THE JOCKEY CLUB WHICH HAS PLEDGED $250,000 MORE TO THE PROJECT.
THE NEW REGIONAL HEADQUARTERS, TO BE CALLED TANG SHIU-KIN HOUSE, WILL BE FIVE STOREYS HIGH AND MAINLY USED BY 7,000 SCOUTS AND OTHER YOUNG PEOPLE LIVING ON HONG KONG ISLAND.
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