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*WHEN A PARTICULAR SCHOOL IS OVERSUBSCRIBED, A RANDOMISATION METHOD WILL BE USED TO ENSURE FAIRNESS TO ALL CHILDREN LIVING IN THE DISTRICT,+ HE SAID.
DUE TO THE UNEVEN DISTRIBUTION OF PRIMARY ONE PUPILS, SOME SCHOOL DISTRICTS WHICH DO NOT HAVE SUFFICIENT PUBLIC-SECTOR PRIMARY ONE PLACES MAY HAVE TO INCORPORATE SOME SCHOOL PLACES FROM SCHOOLS IN NEIGHBOURING DISTRICTS TO MAKE UP FOR THE SHORTAGES.
THE SPOKESMAN ASSURED THAT SUCH MOVES ARE ESSENTIAL IN ORDER TO ENABLE CHILDREN TO BE ALLOCATED TO A SCHOOL NEAREST TO THEIR HOME ACCORDING TO THE IR PARENTS' CHOICES.
THE SPOKESMAN ADDED THAT PARENTS WHO HAVE MOVED HOUSE RECENTLY OR ARE PLANNING TO MOVE HOUSE IN THE NEAR FUTURE MUST INFORM THE PRIMARY ONE ADMISSION UNIT SO THAT ARRANGEMENTS CAN BE MADE TO ALLOCATE A PLACE TO THEIR CHILDREN IN THEIR NEW HOME DISTRICT.
RESULTS OF THE CENTRAL ALLOCATION OF PLACES WILL BE ANNOUNCED IN LATE-JUNE. PARENTS WILL BE ASKED BY THE PRIMARY ONE ADMISSION UNIT TO COLLECT AN ALLOCATION SLIP ON A SPECIFIED DATE FROM THE IR OWN DISTRIBUTION/COLLECTION CENTRE AND REGISTER WITH THE SCHOOL ALLOCATED AT THE TIME AND DATE AS INDICATED ON THE SLIP.
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NEW TEMPLE ON TSING YI OPENS
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A NEW +HOME FOR TIN HAU, THE GODDESS OF HEAVEN, ON TSING YI ISLAND WAS OPENED BY THE SECRETARY FOR DISTRICT ADMINISTRATION, MR DAVID AKERS-JONES, TODAY (THURSDAY).
SITUATED ON CHUNG MEI ROAD, THE 65-SQUARE-METRE NEW TEMPLE HAS BEEN BUILT TO REPLACE THE OLD ONE WHICH WAS BUILT SOME 200 YEARS AGO, AND WILL BE DEMOLISHED TO MAKE WAY FOR DEVELOPMENT PURPOSES.
BEFORE THE OPENING, A TRADITIONAL CEREMONY WAS HELD IN WHICH THE GODDESS WAS CARRIED TO THE NEW TEMPLE IN A SEDAN CHAIR AND ESCORTED BY A UNICORN FROM THE TSING YI RURAL COMMITTEE.
THE NEW TEMPLE WAS THEN OPENED WITH MR AKERS-JONES UNLOCKING THE DOOR AND THE CHAIRMAN OF THE NEW TERRITORIES HEUNG YEE KUK, MR LAU WONG-FAT, UNVEILING THE GODDESS.
ACCOMPANIED BY THE THREE TEMPLE MANAGERS, MR AKERS-JONES THEN BURNT THE FIRST BUNDLE OF INCENSE STICKS AND BOWED TO TIN HAU, FOLLOWED BY MR LAU AND OTHER GUESTS.
CONSTRUCTION OF THE NEW TEMPLE BEGAN LATE LAST YEAR AND WAS COMPLETED RECENTLY. THE GOVERNMENT HAS CONTRIBUTED $371 000 TO COVER PART OF THE BUILDING COST.
THE TIN HAU TEMPLE ON TSING YI IS ONE OF THE OLDEST BUILDINGS ON THE ISLAND AND IS THE ONLY FORMAL TEMPLE THERE.
APART FROM TSING YI VILLAGERS AND LOCALLY-BASED FISHERMEN, THE TEMPLE IS ALSO VISITED BY PILGRIMS FROM OTHER PARTS OF THE TERRITORY.