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Grants for children of farming and fishing families
Children or dependants of farming and fishing families in need of financial assistance for tertiary education are reminded to apply early for the Agricultural Products and Marine Fish Scholarship funds.
A spokesman for the Agriculture and Fisheries Department said applications for the scholarship and grants will close on July 18.
Application forms are obtainable from the department's headquarters on the 12th floor of Canton Road Government Offices, 393 Canton Road, Kowloon, and from various district agricultural and fisheries liaison offices.
"Applicants should be Hong Kong residents under 30 years of age," the spokesman said.
"The awards will be tenable at any university in Hong Kong and any acceptable overseas institution."
Approved courses for tertiary education include those on agriculture, veterinary science, marine science and biology or any applied science directly relevant to the local agriculture or fisheries and related trades.
Enquiries about application procedures may be directed to the Secretary of the Agricultural Products and Marine Fish Scholarship Funds Advisory Committee on 2733 2244.
End/Sunday, July 9,1995
PD achieves performance targets
The Director of Planning, Dr Peter Pun, today (Sunday) said his department had achieved most of its performance targets announced last year.
"The department has achieved the service standard set for 1994 in 90 per cent or higher of the cases in such areas as replying to straightforward oral enquiries and complicated written enquiries as well as processing of development proposals," he said.
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