SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1988
THE
SPEAKING AT A CHEQUE-PRESENTATION CEREMONY FOR "CONSERVATION OF YUEN LONG ANTIQUITIES' FUND-RAISING CAMPAIGN INITIATED BY THE DODWELLS STORES LIMITED IN CELEBRATION OF ITS BRANCH OPENING IN YUEN LONG, MR CHUI PRAISED THE STORE'S MAGNIFICENT AND IMAGINATIVE GESTURE.
HE RECEIVED A CHEQUE AMOUNTING TO $53,384 FROM THE CHAIRMAN AND THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE OF INCHCAPE PACIFIC LIMITED, MR CHARLES MACKAY,
"IT IS INDEED ENCOURAGING TO SEE A BUSINESS COMPANY WHAT IS VALUABLE IN OLD TRADITIONS WHILE MAKING AT THE PROGRESS IN SOME OF THE RELATIVELY NEWER ASPECTS OF LIFE MODERN DAY DEPARTMENT STORE STYLE SHOPPING, MR CHUI SAID.
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RESPECTING SAME TIME SUCH AS
HE NOTED THAT YUEN LONG WAS A CORNER OF HONG KONG THAT WAS PARTICULARLY RICH IN HISTORY AND ITS ADMIRABLE OLD BUILDINGS SHOULD BE PRESERVED FOR THE BETTERMENT OF THE COMMUNITY, GIVING PROPLE A GREATER CONSCIOUSNESS OF THEIR PAST.
HE SAID THE PRESENTATION OF THE CHEQUE HAD COUPLED A VERY VALUABLE PUBLICITY CAMPAIGN TO DRAW PEOPLE'S ATTENTION TO THE RICHES AROUND THEM.
"I PERCEIVE THIS ASPECT OF HERITAGE EDUCATION AS AN IMPORTANT FIELD. WITH MUCH POTENTIAL FOR DEVELOPMENT, HE POINTED OUT.
MR CHUI ALSO ENCOURAGED YUEN LONG RESIDENTS TO JOIN AS FAR AS POSSIBLE WITH THE EFFORTS OF THE ANTIQUITIES AND MONUMENTS OFFICE ΤΟ PRESERVE VALUABLE HISTORICAL BUILDINGS IN THE DISTRICT SINCE THIS WOULD BE OF GREAT LONG-TERM BENEFIT TO THE PEOPLE OF YUEN LONG AND OF HONG KONG AS A WHOLE.
TRANSPORT COMPLAINTS UT 22 PER CENT
THE TRANSPORT ADVISORY COMMITTEE'S TRANSPORT COMPLAINTS UNIT (TCU) RECEIVED A TOTAL OF 2,278 COMPLAINTS DURING THE FIRST QUARTER OF 1988-89, AN INCREASE OF 22 PER CENT WHEN COMPARED WITH THE FIGURE IN THE PREVIOUS QUARTER.
ACCORDING TO A TCU
REPORT RELEASED
WIFE CH
*
TODAY (SATURDAY) + COMPLAINTS ABOUT PUBLIC TRANSPORT SERVICES
NUMBERED 1 013 OR ABOUT 46 PER CENT OF ALL THE COMPLAINTS RECEIVED WERE STILL THE LARGEST SINGLE GROUP OF COMPLAINTS HANDLED BY TCU.
REGARDING THE ADEQUACY OF PUBLIC
COMPLAINTS WERE RECEIVED.
TRANSPORT
SERVICE,
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