TUESDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1981
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FIRST PUBLIC ENQUIRY COUNTER IN THA
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THE FIRST PUBLIC ENQUIRY COUNTER IN A TEMPORARY HOUSING AREA (THA) WAS OPENED AT YUE KOK, TAI PO, TODAY (TUESDAY).
THE COUNTER IS IN BLOCK 37 IN AN OFFICE WHICH IT WILL SHARE WITH THE FAMILY PLANNING ASSOCIATION.
RESIDENTS WILL BE ABLE TO MAKE DECLARATIONS THERE, GET ANSWERS TO GENERAL ENQUIRIES AND OBTAIN GOVERNMENT FORMS.
MANNED BY A LIAISON OFFICER FROM TAI PO DISTRICT OFFICE, THE COUNTER WILL BE OPEN EVERY TUESDAY BETWEEN 7 PM AND 9.30 PM.
A SPOKESMAN FOR THE DISTRICT OFFICE SAID LOCAL RESPONSE TO SIMILAR SERVICES PROVIDED AT THE PUBLIC ENQUIRY SERVICES CENTRE ON THE GROUND FLOOR OF THE DISTRICT OFFICE BUILDING HAD BEEN GOOD.
THE NEW COUNTER WOULD SERVE AS A CHANNEL OF COMMUNICATION BETWEEN THE GOVERNMENT AND THA RESIDENTS. IT WOULD IMPROVE SERVICES AND ENABLE CLOSER CONTACT BETWEEN THE DISTRICT OFFICE AND RESIDENTS.
THE YUE KOK THA, LOCATED AT TING KOK ROAD, IS THE ONLY ONE IN TAI PO. IT HOUSES 8 900 PEOPLE, MOST OF WHOM HAVE MOVED THERE FROM OTHER AREAS OF TAI PO, FANLING AND SHEUNG SHUI.
PRISON OFFICERS THANKED FOR SAVING OLD WOMAN
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TWO ASSISTANT OFFICERS OF THE PRISONS DEPARTMENT WHO RESCUED AN ELDERLY WOMAN FROM CHOPPY SEA AT CHI MA WAN EARLY LAST MONTH WERE TODAY (TUESDAY) THANKED FOR THEIR COURAGEOUS ACT.
THE 68-YEAR-OLD WOMAN, MRS LEE LAU-YING, CALLED AT THE CHI MA WAN PRISON TODAY AND PRESENTED THE OFFICERS EACH WITH A PLAQUE IN
THE APPRECIATION OF THEIR BRAVERY AND PUBLIC-SPIRITED ACTION. OFFICERS ARE MR CHAN KWOK-KEUNG AND MR NG SHUI-MING.
MRS LEE SAID THE TWO PLAQUES WERE SENT HERE BY HER SON WHO IS A BUSINESSMAN IN TAIWAN. HER SON HAD ALSO WRITTEN TO THE SUPER INTENDENT OF CHI MA WAN PRISON THAT HE WAS VERY GRATEFUL TO THE TWO OFFICERS FOR SAVING HIS MOTHER'S LIFE.
THE INCIDENT OCCURRED AT 11.15 AM ON SEPTEMBER 4 WHEN MR CHAN KWOK-KEUNG OF CHI MA WAN PRISON AND MR NG SHUI-MING, A DRIVER OF MA PO PING PRISON WHO WERE ON DUTY AT CHI MA WAN RESPONDED TO A CRY FOR HELP COMING FROM THE DIRECTION OF A PUBLIC PIER NEARBY.
THEY SAW MRS LEE, A VILLAGER OF SHAP LONG TSUEN ON LANTAU,
AND WHO HAD FALLEN OFF THE PIER, STRUGGLING IN THE CHOPPY SEA, DIVED IN AND RESCUED HER.
AFTER INITIAL TREATMENT BY THE MEDICAL OFFICER IN THE PRISON, MRS LEE WAS TAKEN BY HELICOPTER TO THE HOSPITAL.
THE VILLAGERS OF SHAP LONG TSUEN INFORMED HER SON IN TAIWAN OF WHAT HAD HAPPENED.
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