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MORE HELP FOR THE AGED

Monday, June 11, 1973

The government and the community of Hong Kong are trying to do

more for the aged, and the Chung Shak-hei (Cheung Chau) Home for the Aged

is to have a significant role to play.

The New Territories District Commissioner, Mr. I.F.C. Macpherson,

said this today at the home's swearing-in ceremony of the 1973-74 Board of

Directors when he paid tribute to the service provided by the institution

in the past few years.

The success of the home, he said, ia testified by the grant of

$10,000 subvention by the Social Welfare Department, and by its plans to

expand the facilities to accommodate more elderly people.

The home now has accommodation for 50 people, and, pending a grant

from the Government Lotteries Fund, it expects to accommodate 20 more in a

year's time.

Mr. Macpherson said the proposed expansion would not be an easy task

for a relatively small community like Cheung Chau. But he understood that the

land and part of the funds required were already in hand.

He described the readiness of the home to run a dormitory for the

aged in the proposed Cheung Chau Estate as "very worthwhile".

"I have asked the District Officer to do his best to assist," he added.

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