MONDAY, MARCH 14, 1983
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NEW OFFICE FOR RURAL COMMITTEE
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+A CENTRE OF ACTIVITIES FOR THE LIFE OF SHA TAU KOK VILLAGERS+ WAS OPENED TODAY (MONDAY) BY THE REGIONAL SECRETARY FOR NEW TERRITORIES, MR IAN MACPHERSON.
SPEAKING AT THE OPENING CEREMONY, MR MACPHERSON PRAISED MEMBERS OF THE SHA TAU KOK RURAL COMMITTEE AND A NUMBER OF GENEROUS DONORS WHOSE EFFORTS HAD MADE THE NEW BUILDING POSSIBLE.
HE SAID: THE RURAL COMMITTEE WILL CERTAINLY MAKE GOOD USE OF IT TO PROVIDE AN EVEN BETTER SERVICE TO THE LOCAL INHABITANTS.+
THE SHA TAU KOK RURAL COMMITTEE WAS ESTABLISHED 50 YEARS AGO. ITS OFFICE WAS MOVED TO THE PRESENT SITE IN 1962, BUT COLLAPSED IN 1979.
THE TWO-STOREY BUILDING WAS REBUILT AT A COST OF ABOUT $70 000, OF WHICH $20 000 CAME FROM THE NORTH DISTRICT OFFICE AND THE BALANCE WAS CONTRIBUTED BY LOCAL DIGNITARIES.
ITS ADMINISTRATION OFFICES ARE ON THE GROUND FLOOR AND THE UPPER FLOOR IS USED AS A CONFERENCE ROOM.
FREE OUTING FOR ELDERLY PEOPLE
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FOUR HUNDRED ELDERLY PEOPLE WILL JOIN A FREE ONE-DAY OUTING TO THE NEW TERRITORIES BEING ORGANISED BY THE WAN CHAI OFFICE OF THE RECREATION AND SPORT SERVICE (RSS) AND THE MOUNT CAMERON LIONS' CLUB.
THEY ARE AMONG THE MORE THAN 1 000 ELDERLY PEOPLE WHO APPLIED TO THE RSS OFFICE THIS MORNING FOR THE 400 VACANCIES AVAILABLE.
THEY WILL BE TAKEN ON A VISIT ON MARCH 23 TO FUNG YING SIN KOON, A MONASTERY IN FANLING, AND WILL BE ENTERTAINED TO A VEGETARIAN LUNCH AT CHUK LAM SIM YUEN, A MONASTERY IN TSUEN WAN.
THE OUTING IS AN ANNUAL EVENT ORGANISED FOR THE ELDERLY PEOPLE, A SPOKESMAN FOR THE RSS SAID.
+DUE TO ITS POPULARITY. THE NUMBER OF PLACES HAS BEEN RAISED FROM 260 LAST YEAR TO 400 THIS YEAR, HE SAID.
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