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SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1981
SNT STARTS COMMUNITY CHEST WALK
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THE TUEN MUN/YUEN LONG JOINT DISTRICTS WALK, WHICH IS THE FIRST OF SEVEN COMMUNITY CHEST WALKS FOR 1981/82, WAS HELD THIS MORNING (SUNDAY).
FOLLOWING A RIBBON-CUTTING CEREMONY BY SECRETARY FOR THE NEW TERRITORIES, MR DAVID AKERS-JONES, MORE THAN 8 000 ENTHUSIASTS SET OFF FROM SHEUNG TSUEN PLAYGROUND, SHEK KONG, FINISHING 20 KILOMETRES LATER AT TAI LAM CHUNG CUSTOMS AND EXCISE TRAINING SCHOOL, TUEN MUN.
PARTICIPANTS INCLUDED TEAMS FROM RURAL COMMITTEES, DISTRICT OFFICES, MUTUAL AID COMMITTEES, SCHOOLS, FACTORIES AND BUSINESS ORGANISATIONS.
THE TARGET FOR THE WALK IS $500 000.
A MACLEHOSE TRAIL WALK ON JANUARY 3, CONSIDERED TO BE THE MOST CHALLENGING OF ALL WALKS, IS BEING INTRODUCED TO REPLACE THE PREVIOUS PAT SIN RANGE WALK.
OTHER WALKS TO BE HELD INCLUDE A HONG KONG WALK (DECEMBER 6), A SAI KUNG WALK (DECEMBER 13), A SHA TIN WALK (FEBRUARY 28) AND A KOWLOON WALK (MARCH 7).
COMMUNITY CHEST WALKS STARTED 11 YEARS AGO WHEN 12 000 PEOPLE TOOK PART AND $1 MILLION WAS RAISED. LAST YEAR, 130 000 PEOPLE TOOK PART IN THE 11 ORGANISED WALKS AND RAISED $7 MILLION. EIGHT OF THE WALKS WERE HELD IN THE NEW TERRITORIES, RAISING $2.41 MILLION.
A SPOKESMAN FOR THE COMMUNITY CHEST SAID IT WAS HOPED THAT A NEW RECORD WOULD BE SET THIS YEAR.
ALSO PRESENT TODAY WERE THE CHAIRMAN OF THE COMMUNITY CHEST WALKS, MR TREVOR BEDFORD THE NEW TERRITORIES WALKS ADVISER, MR MIKE ILLINGWORTH AND THE NEW TERRITORIES WALKS CHAIRMAN, J MR LAU WONG-FAT.