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A NUMBER OF TEMPORARY REFUSE COLLECTION POINTS WERE SET UP AT VARIOUS LOCATIONS TO HELP HOUSEWIVES TO DISPOSE OF THEIR UNWANTED ARTICLES.
SOME 30 MUTUAL AID COMMITTEES OF MULTI-STOREY BUILDINGS JOINED A +CLEAN BUILDING COMPETITION ORGANISED BY THE YUEN LONG DISTRICT KEEP HONG KONG CLEAN COMMITTEE AND TOOK ACTION TO CLEAR AWAY REFUSE ACCUMULATED IN COMMON PLACES, CORRIDORS, AND ON CANOPIES AND ROOF TOPS.
HONG KONG/SWEDEN TEXTILE CONSULTATIONS
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CONSULTATIONS WITH SWEDEN ON ARRANGEMENTS REGARDING FUTURE TRADE IN TEXTILES BETWEEN HONG KONG AND SWEDEN WILL BEGIN IN HONG KONG TOMORROW (MONDAY).
THE CURRENT HONG KONG/SWEDEN TEXTILE AGREEMENT WAS CONCLUDED FOR A TWO-YEAR PERIOD WHICH IS DUE TO EXPIRE ON MARCH 31 THIS YEAR.
THE CURRENT AGREEMENT, WHICH PROVIDES FOR EXPORT RESTRAINT ON 17 GROUPS OF TEXTILE PRODUCTS AS WELL AS A BASKET GROUP COMPRISING NINE ITEMS, WAS CONCLUDED UNDER ARTICLE 1 AND ARTICLE 4 OF THE MULTI-FIBRE ARRANGEMENT AND THE PROTOCOL OF EXTENSION.
THE SWEDISH DELEGATION IS BEING LED BY MR CURT WIIK, A DIRECTOR IN THE SWEDISH MINISTRIES FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND COMMERCE, WITH OVERALL RESPONSIBLITY FOR BILATERAL TRADE NEGOTIATIONS THE HONG KONG DELEGATION IS HEADED BY COMMISSIONER OF TRADE, MR PETER TSAO.
NORTH DISTRICT YOUNGSTERS COMPETE IN TABLE TENNIS
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SIXTY YOUNGSTERS TODAY TOOK PART IN A TABLE-TENNIS TOURNAMENT HELD AT NORTH DISTRICT OF THE NEW TERRITORIES.
THE TOURNAMENT WAS ORGANISED BY NORTH DISTRICT FIGHT CRIME COMMITTEE, THE ACTION COMMITTEE AGAINST NARCOTICS THE RECREATION AND SPORT SERVICE AND SHEUNG SHUI SPORTS ASSOCIATION.
BESIDES PROVIDING AN OPPORTUNITY FOR PARTICIPANTS TO PRACTISE THE IR SKILLS, IT WAS INTENDED TO PUBLICISE THE DANGERS OF DRUG TAKING AND THE IMPORTANCE OF GOOD HEALTH,
WOMEN.
THERE WERE TWO SECTIONS, DIVIDED BY AGE, FOR YOUNG MEN AND
WINNERS WILL BE SELECTED TO TAKE PART IN THE NEW TERRITORIES INTER-DISTRICT TABLE TENNIS TOURNAMENT TO BE HELD IN MAY.
ALL PARTICIPANTS RECEIVED A SOUVENIR AND THE FOUR CHAMPIONS IN EACH SECTION WERE AWARDED A TROPHY AT THE END OF THE TOURNAMENT, WHICH WAS HELD AT THE KEI SUN COLLEGE HALL, FANLING.
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