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HONG KONG GOVERNMENT INFORMATION SERVICES

DAILY

INFORMATION BULLETIN

Monday, May 29, 1972

PLEA FOR INCREASED AMOUNT OF FUTURE DONATIONS

To Community Chest Of Hong Kong

Lady MacLehose said today she hoped many more firms and individuals

might consider increasing the amount of their donations in the next campaign

of the Community Chest of Hong Kong.

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She was speaking, in her capacity as the President of the Chest,

at the third annual general meeting of the Chest at the Mandarin Hotel.

god il Referring to the fact that deductions might be claimed on 'Salaries

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or Income Tax Returns in respect of charitable donations, Lady MacLehose

said whilst some donors kindly increased their donations in anticipation of

this relief, it was perhaps disappointing that relatively so few did so.

She pointed out that the matters of increasing the amount of future

donations to charity, and of still further widening the base of the number

of donors to the Chest, were justified by two facts.

Firstly, she said, the number of the Chest's Member Agencies had

increased from 43 to 60 and then to 64 over the years.

"Secondly, the annual needs of the Chest's Member Agencies, after a

most careful study of their requests, have risen, respectively, over the total

of the previous year by 30 per cent, then by 12 per cent and then by 17 per cent

or, to summarize, the allocations to the Member Agencies for the 1972-73 year,

are 70 per cent higher than the allocations were when the chest started."

/Lady