10
BLANKETS FOR STREET SLEEPERS
SATURDAY, MARCH 7, 1992
WELFARE
DEPARTMENT STAFF
A TOTAL OF 501 BLANKETS AND SLEEPING BAGS WERE STREET SLEEPERS BY SOCIAL TERRITORY LAST (FRIDAY) NIGHT.
THE BLANKETS
AND
SLEEPING
BAGS WERE
THROUGHOUT
DISTRIBUTED ΤΟ THE
GIVEN TO 174
STREET
SLEEPERS ON HONG KONG ISLAND, 29 IN EAST KOWLOON, 221 IN WEST KOWLOON, 23 IN NEW TERRITORIES EAST AND SEVEN IN THE NEW TERRITORIES WEST.
A SOCIAL WELFARE DEPARTMENT
SPOKESMAN SAID TODAY (SATURDAY) SUCH EXERCISE MOUNTED TO
THE DISTRIBUTION LAST NIGHT WAS THE THIRD HELP THE NEEDY IN THE STREETS THIS WINTER.
"MORE THAN 610 BLANKETS AND SLEEPING BAGS HAD BEEN IN THE PREVIOUS TWO EXERCISES," THE SPOKESMAN ADDED.
DISTRIBUTED
HONG KONG GOVERNMENT EXCHANGE FUND
MONEY MARKET OPERATIONS
* * * * * *
DATE
$ MILLION
CLOSING BALANCE IN THE ACCOUNT ON
6.3.92
600
EFFECT OF FORWARDS TO BE SETTLED ON
7.3.92
NEUTRAL
EFFECT OF OPERATIONS THIS MORNING
NEUTRAL