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SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1980
SNT STARTS COMMUNITY CHEST WALK
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THE FIRST OF THE 11 COMMUNITY CHEST WALKS FOR 1980/81 WAS STARTED THIS (SUNDAY) MORNING IN YUEN LONG BY THE SECRETARY FOR THE NEW TERRITORIES, MR DAVID AKERS-JONES.
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THE WALK WAS OVER A 20-KILOMETRE COURSE FROM PAT HEUNG SHEUNG TSUEN PLAYGROUND TO THE CUSTOMS AND EXCISE TRAINING SCHOOL AT TAI LAM CHUNG, TUEN MUN. THE ENTIRE ROUTE WAS WITHIN THE TAI LAM COUNTRY PARK.
TAKING PART IN THE CHARITY EVENT WERE MORE THAN 5 000 PEOPLE, MOST OF WHOM WERE YUEN LONG AND TUEN MUN RESIDENTS. AMONG THEM WERE TEAMS REPRESENTING RURAL COMMITTEES, DISTRICT OFFICES, MUTUAL AID COMMITTEES, SCHOOLS, FACTORIES AND BUSINESS FIRMS.
A COMMUNITY CHEST SPOKESMAN SAID THE $450 000 TARGET HAD BEEN REACHED, BUT THE EXACT AMOUNT OF MONEY RAISED FROM THE WALK WOULD BE ANNOUNCED LATER.
JOINING MR AKERS-JONES AT THE RIBBON-CUTTING THIS MORNING WERE THE SENIOR UNOFFICIAL MEMBER OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL, MR OSWALD CHEUNG, AND THE CHAIRMAN OF THE NEW TERRITORIES COMMUNITY CHEST WALKS ORGANISING COMMITTEE, MR LAU WONG-FAT.
LION DANCES WERE PERFORMED BY LOCAL VILLAGERS BEFORE THE WALK STARTED.
THE COMMUNITY CHEST IS TO HOLD EIGHT CHARITY WALKS IN THE NEW TERRITORIES IN ADDITION TO A HONG KONG WALK, A KOWLOON WALK AND A WALK-FOR-THE-DISABLED.
BESIDES TODAY'S YUEN LONG-TUEN MUN WALK, THE OTHER SEVEN NEW TERRITORIES WALKS WILL BE HELD AT PAT SIN RANGE (DECEMBER 21) LANTAU AND SAI KUNG (JANUARY 4)- TAI PO AND TSUEN WAN (JANUARY 11). AND SHA TIN AND NORTH DISTRICT (JANUARY 18).
LAST YEAR SIX WALKS WERE HELD IN THE NEW TERRITORIES FROM WHICH $2 MILLION WAS RAISED. IT IS EXPECTED THAT A NEW RECORD WILL BE SET THIS YEAR.
EEC DELEGATION HERE FOR TEXTILE TALKS ***
A DELEGATION FROM THE EEC COMMISSION NOW IN HONG KONG, WILL HOLD TALKS WITH THE TRADE INDUSTRY AND CUSTOMS DEPARTMENT FROM NEXT TUESDAY (NOVEMBER 25) ON MATTERS RELATING TO THE OPERATION OF THE HK/EEC TEXTILE AGREEMENT.
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THE COMMISSION'S DELEGATION IS HEADED BY MR JOHN BECK. KONG'S DELEGATION WILL BE LED BY MR K.Y. YEUNG, DEPUTY COMMISSIONER OF TRADE.
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