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SPECIAL STAMP ISSUE ON YEAR OF THE RAM
A SET OF SPECIAL STAMPS ON "YEAR OF THE RAM" WILL BE JANUARY 24, THE POSTMASTER GENERAL, MR DOMINIC
S.W. WONG, TODAY (WEDNESDAY).
ISSUED
ANNOUNCED
ON
THIS IS THE FIFTH IN THE CURRENT SERIES OF LUNAR NEW YEAR SPECIAL STAMP ISSUES WHICH COMMENCED WITH THE YEAR OF THE RABBIT IN 1987.
THERE WILL BE FOUR DENOMINATIONS
60 CENT, $1.40, 31.80 AND
$5. THE DESIGN DEPICTS IN EMBROIDERY STYLE VARIOUS POSTURES OF THE RAM.
A SOUVENIR SHEET CONTAINING A SET OF FOUR STAMPS AT $8.80 WILL ALSO BE ISSUED.
IN ADDITION, A STAMP FOLDER CONTAINING TWO SE-TENANT WILL BE SOLD AT $14.40.
SHEETLETS
EACH SHEETLET CONSISTS OF THREE $1.80 STAMPS IN THE UPPER ROW AND THREE. 60 CENT STAMPS IN THE LOWER ROW.
THE STAMPS WERE DESIGNED BY MR KAN TAI-KEUNG AND WERE PRINTED BY JOH ENSCHEDE EN ZONEN OF HOLLAND.
FURTHER DETAILS ON THE ISSUE WILL BE ANNOUNCED CLOSER ΤΟ THE DATE OF ISSUE.
SUBSIDIES FOR CIVIC EDUCATION PROJECTS
A TOTAL OF $950,000 HAS BEEN SET ASIDE BY THE COMMITTEE ON THE PROMOTION OF CIVIC EDUCATION TO SUBSIDISE COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION PROJECTS IN CIVIC EDUCATION NEXT YEAR.
"APPLICATIONS FOR THE SUBSIDY ARE NOW OPEN TO REGISTERED COMMUNITY ORGANISATIONS AND THE MAXIMUM GRANT PER PROJECT IS $50,000, A SPOKESMAN FOR THE COMMITTEE SAID TODAY (WEDNESDAY).
THE AIM OF THE SCHEME IS TO ENCOURAGE ORGANISATIONS FROM VARIOUS SECTORS TO PROMOTE CIVIC EDUCATION AND ACTIVE PARTICIPATION IN PUBLIC AFFAIRS, HE SAID.
"IT IS ALSO HOPED THAT THESE PROJECTS, IN THE FORMS OF EXHIBITIONS, PRODUCTION, TRAINING AND SO ON, WILL ENABLE PARTICIPANTS TO UNDERSTAND AND PRACTISE 'RESPONSIBLE CITIZENSHIP' AND TO UNDERSTAND AND UPHOLD CIVIC RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES,
中申 THE SPOKESMAN SAID.
/EACH APPLICATION
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