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Chief Justice to attend CSD Beating Retreat
The Chief Justice, Sir Ti Liang Yang, will be the Guest of Honour at the Correctional Services Department's Beating Retreat 1996 to be held at the Queen Elizabeth Stadium tomorrow (Saturday) evening.
The highlight of the event will be a one-and-a-half hour musical programme featuring a lion dance and marching bands performed by boy scouts and girl guides who are inmates of various CSD institutions for young offenders.
In collaboration with the Scout Association of Hong Kong, the CSD introduced scouting into the training centres in 1986 and it is through scout training and activities that young offenders learn to acquire self-reliance, self-discipline, self-confidence and sense of responsibility -- qualities they need to turn over a new leaf.
The 221st Hong Kong Group was established in July 1986 for the inmates of Lai King Training Centre and Cape Collision Correctional Institution with 78 inmates from the two training centres joining the Group voluntarily. Nineteen CSD staff were appointed Scout Leaders.
Today, some 250 scout members from the two training centres receive scout training under the leadership of 35 CSD staff. In the past 10 years, a total of 1,485 inmates had joined the Group.
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New firing practice timetable for October
Firing practice will take place at the Ha Tsuen/Castle Peak Range on nine days this month. The public is advised not to enter the area when red flags are hoisted.
Following are the dates and times for the firing practice:
Date
Time
October 7 (Monday)
8.30 am - 5 pm
October 8 (Tuesday)
8.30 am - 5 pm
October 10 (Thursday)
8.30 am - 5 pm
October 15 (Tuesday)
8.30 am - 5 pm
8.30 am - 4.30 pm
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October 16 (Wednesday) October 17 (Thursday) October 18 (Friday) October 23 (Wednesday) October 24 (Thursday)
8.30 am - 11.59 pm
8.30 am - 4.30 pm 8.30 am - 5 pm 8.30 am - 5 pm