TUESDAY, AUGUST 6, 1985
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YOUTHS VISIT TSO KUNG TAM PLANT NURSERY
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TWENTY ENVIRONMENT-CONSCIOUS YOUNGSTERS TODAY (TUESDAY) LEARNED SOME USEFUL TECHNIQUES IN HORTICULTURE DURING A VISIT TO A PLANT NURSERY AT TSO KUNG TAM IN TSUEN WAN.
THE VISIT, ORGANISED BY THE REGIONAL SERVICES DEPARTMENT, WAS AIMED AT PROVIDING YOUNGSTERS WITH BASIC KNOWLEDGE IN HORTICULTURE AS WELL AS AROUSING THEIR INTEREST IN THE CARE OF PLANTS.
AGED FROM EIGHT TO 14, THE YOUNGSTERS ARE FROM THE LEI MUK SHUE CHILDREN'S CENTRE OF THE HONG KONG BOYS' AND GIRLS' CLUBS ASSOCIATION.
THEY WERE BRIEFED BY THE ASSISTANT DISTRICT AMENITIES OFFICER OF TSUEN WAN, MR CHEUNG KING-SHEK, ON VARIOUS ASPECTS OF PLANT GROWING INCLUDING SEED SOWING, FERTILISING, WATERING, PRUNING AND CUTTING,
THEY WERE ALSO TOLD THAT THE TSO KUNG TAM NURSERY LAST YEAR PRODUCED MORE THAN 200 000 SEEDLINGS OF TREE, SHRUB, PALM, BAMBOO, CREEPER AND GROUND COVER WHICH WERE EVENTUALLY PLANTED IN VARIOUS PARKS, GARDENS AND ROADSIDE AMENITY PLOTS IN THE NON-URBAN AREAS.
MR CHEUNG SAID THE NURSERY WAS OPEN TO ALL SCHOOLS, CLUBS AND ORGANISATIONS, INTERESTED PARTIES COULD CONTACT THE LEISURE SERVICES SECTION OF THE RSD'S TSUEN WAN DISTRICT OFFICE ON TELEPHONE 0-444281 EXT. 401 TO MAKE ARRANGEMENT.
NINE USD STAFF PROMOTED
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THE DIRECTOR OF URBAN SERVICES, MR AUGUSTINE CHUI TODAY PRESENTED PROMOTION LETTERS TO NINE USD AMENITIES OFFICERS.
AMONG THE NEWLY-PROMOTED WERE DR CHOO YON SEN OF THE USD TRAINING SCHOOL AND MR YAU KWOK-YIN OF THE HONG KONG REGIONAL OFFICE (LEISURE SERVICES). BOTH WERE PROMOTED TO CHIEF AMENITIES OFFICERS.
ANOTHER SEVEN AMENITIES ASSISTANT IIIS WERE ALSO RAISED TO THE RANK OF AMENITIES ASSISTANT 11.
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