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The weekend is being staged, firstly, to raise money for the Locally Enlisted Personnel Trust, the charity set up by the British Forces to provide funds for Hong Kong Chinese ex-members of the British Garrison who may find themselves in need or distress after 1997, and, secondly, to allow the general public access to the military and to show them some of our work.
Admission to Stonecutters Island will be by tickets which are now on sale as
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Date
Star Ferry Concourse
MTR Station
Now until 26 Jan 96
Central & Tsim Sha Tsui
20 & 21 Jan 96
Beat drug forum and video premiere
Tsim Sha Tsui
Tsuen Wan
Kowloon Tong
Kwun Tong Central
Tai Koo
Mong Kok
The Director of Social Welfare, Mr Ian Strachan, will officiate at a forum tomorrow (Saturday) on 'Helping young people be drug-free' and the premiere of a video targeted at parents on the handling of drug problems among their children.
The forum cum video premiere will be held at 9.30 am at the gymnasium of Lady Trench Training Centre at 44 Oi Kwan Road, Wan Chai. About 170 social workers and teachers will be present.
The production of the video is one of the pledges as announced by the Governor in the Summit Meeting on Drugs in March last year.
The new video will be distributed to schools, drug rehabilitation centres, welfare agencies rendering services to young people and concerned government departments after the premiere.
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