WEDNESDAY, MARCH 12, 1980
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MONITORING OF HEUNG YEE KUK ELECTIONS
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THE SECRETARY FOR THE NEW TERRITORIES, THE HON DAVID AKERS-JONES, SAID TODAY (WEDNESDAY) THAT THE FORTHCOMING HEUNG YEE KUK ELECTIONS WOULD BE SUPERVISED, OR MONITORED, WITH GREAT CARE BY HIM PERSONALLY AS RETURNING OFFICER.
REPLYING TO A QUESTION FROM THE HON CHARLES YEUNG IN THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL, MR AKERS-JONES SAID HE WOULD BE ASSISTED IN THIS WORK BY SENIOR STAFF OF THE NEW TERRITORIES ADMINISTRATION.
SNT LAYS FOUNDATION STONE FOR NEW SCHOOL IN SHA TIN
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THE TUNG WAH GROUP OF HOSPITALS HAS A FINE RECORD OF DEVELOPING EDUCATIONAL SERVICES IN HONG KONG, SECRETARY FOR THE NEW TERRITORIES, MR DAVID AKERS-JONES, SAID TODAY (WEDNESDAY).
MR AKERS-JONES WAS SPEAKING AT THE FOUNDATION STONE LAYING CEREMONY FOR THE TUNG WAH GROUP OF HOSPITALS YOW KAM YUEN PRE-VOCATIONAL SCHOOL IN SHA TIN NEW TOWN,
HE SAID THE GROUP ALREADY OPERATED 13 PRIMARY SCHOOLS, SEVEN SECONDARY SCHOOLS AND THREE NIGHT SCHOOLS, AND HE WAS MOST GRATEFUL TO MR YOW MOK-SHING, CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE TUNG WAH GROUP OF HOSPITALS, AND THE BOARD MEMBERS FOR THEIR +INITIATIVE, FORESIGHT AND GENEROUS FINANCIAL CONTRIBUTIONS IN ESTABLISHING THIS NEW PRE-VOCATIONAL SCHOOL.+
MR AKERS-JONES SAID PEOPLE STILL THOUGHT OF SHA TIN AS A DORMITORY TOWN BUT THIS WAS FAR FROM THE TRUTH.
THERE WAS ALREADY A DEVELOPED INDUSTRIAL AREA WITH 209 000 SQUARE METRES (2.25 MILLION SQUARE FEET) OF FACTORY FLOOR SPACE AND A FURTHER SIX HECTARES (15 ACRES) OF INDUSTRIAL LAND CURRENTLY UNDER DEVELOPMENT OVER THE NEXT YEAR A FURTHER 3.2 HECTARES
(EIGHT ACRES) OF LAND WOULD BE DISPOSED OF FOR INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT.
+THERE IS ALREADY A DEMAND FOR EMPLOYEES WHO HAVE HAD SOME TECHNICAL INSTRUCTION AS PART OF THEIR EDUCATION AND THIS DEMAND WILL GROW AS THE TOWN DEVELOPS, HE SAID,
+THIS SCHOOL, WHICH WILL OPEN IN 1982, WILL SPECIALISE IN PRINTING AND LIGHT ENGINEERING, AND IT WILL THUS PLAY A LEADING ROLE IN PREPARING THE YOUNG PEOPLE OF SHA TIN FOR LIFE WHEN THEY LEAVE SCHOOL.+
MR YOW SAID THE GROUP HAD BEEN PROVIDING FREE EDUCATION TO THE COMMUNITY OF HONG KONG SINCE 1880.
AT PRESENT, A TOTAL OF 15 600 STUDENTS WERE ATTENDING SCHOOLS RUN BY THE GROUP, INCLUDING ADULT STUDENTS.
+THIS NEW SCHOOL IS GOING TO BE THE FIRST OF ITS KIND OPERATED BY TUNG WAH, HE SAID. MR YOW HAS DONATED $1 MILLION TOWARDS THE CONTRIBUTION COSTS OF THE SCHOOL WHICH IS NAMED AFTER HIS LATE GRANDFATHER.
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