FRIDAY, AUGUST 12, 1977
GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTS FOR MAY
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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTS FOR THE MONTH OF MAY SHOW A SURPLUS OF $70.3 MILLION AS COMPARED WITH A SURPLUS OF $20.9 MILLION IN MAY LAST YEAR.
TOTAL EXPENDITURE AT $529.3 MILLION WAS $82.9 MILLION
MORE THAN IN MAY 1976.
TOTAL REVENUE AND RECEIPTS AT $599.6 MILLION WAS $132.2 MILLION MORE THAN THE SAME MONTH LAST YEAR.
LADY MAYORESS TOURS CHESHIRE HOME ****
THE LADY MAYORESS OF LONDON, WHO ARRIVED HERE YESTERDAY WITH THE LORD MAYOR, COMMANDER SIR ROBIN GILLETT FOR A FOUR-DAY VISIT, SPENT THIS (FRIDAY) MORNING TOURING THE CHESHIRE HOME, AN INSTITUTION FOR HANDICAPPED PEOPLE IN CHUNG HOM KOK.
LADY GILLETT WAS GREETED ON HER ARRIVAL BY MR. KENNETH T.C. LC, CHAIRMAN OF THE CHESHIRE HOME COMMITTEE AND MISS S.C. KEA, THE HOME'S SUPERVISOR.
AFTER A BRIEFING BY MR. LO ON THE HISTORY OF CHESHIRE HOME, LADY GILLETT STARTED HER TOUR BY INSPECTING THE HANDICRAFT ROOM. HERE SOME OF THE RESIDENTS WERE BUSY SEWING GLOVES AND TROUSERS OR MAKING FEATHER FLAGS FOR A FLAG DAY TO BE HELD LATER THIS MONTH TO RAISE FUNDS FOR THE HOME.
SHE THEN TOURED THE MODERN FACILITIES OF THE HOME, WHICH CCST $3 MILLION TO BUILD.
IT CAN ACCOMMODATE UP TO 90 RESIDENTS BUT AT PRESENT THERE ARE ONLY 52. TWELVE MORE RESIDENTS ARE EXPECTED TO BE ADMITTED LATER THIS MONTH.
THE CHESHIRE HOME WAS FORMALLY OPENED BY LADY MACLEHOSE IN MARCH THIS YEAR TO REPLACE THE OLD ONE WHICH WAS ESTABLISHED IN 1961 ON THE SAME SITE.
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