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Monday, March 5, 1973

YWCA CENTRE TO BE SET UP IN CASTLE PEAK

A social centre will be set up in the Castle Peak Resettlement

Estate by the Young Women's Christian Association to meet the urgent need

for social service and community facilities in the area.

A capital grant of $150,000 has been allocated from the Lotteries

Fund to the Association for furniture and equipment.

The centre is capable of accommodating 200-300 people each day.

It will provide a library, study rooms, and facilities for

group and recreational activities and other community programmes.

The centre is expected to be open at the end of this month.

SECOND PHASE OF ANTI-POLIO CAMPAIGN

The second phase of the 1973 anti-polio campaign is now in operation,

and parents are urged to bring their children for inoculation.

A spokesman for the Medical and Health Department' said that childron

who had received the first inoculation should now come forward for the second.

More than 28,000 children received polio immunisation during the

first phase of the campaign.

Polio vaccine is available free of charge from all inoculation contres

and maternity and child health centres.

The second phase of the campaign will last until March 31.

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