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Friday, November 9, 1973

HONG KONG'S BIGGEST-EVER CAREERS EXHIBITION

To Be Staged On Wanchai Reclamation

The Youth Employment Advisory Service of the Labour Department

is to stage Hong Kong's biggest-ever Careers Exhibition as a major feature

of this year's Festival of Hong Kong.

The Commissioner of Labour, Mr. I.R. Price, said today the

exhibition

to be staged by the Service

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would be more than twice

the size of last year's pilot effort by the department in the City Hall.

"Last year's exhibition, which only lasted for a couple of

days, showed that there is a tremendous demand for an exhibition of

this kind," he said.

"We received a very good response at last year's exhibition.

Since then we have received a flood of requests from students, teachers,

parents, and leaders of commerce and industry for a further exhibition."

Mr. Price said this year's enlarged exhibition would occupy

half of the CMA pavilion on the Wanchai Reclamation during the period

of the Festival of Hong Kong. It would be officially opened at 3.00 p.m.

on Friday, November 23 by the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Hong

Kong, Dr. Rayson Huang, and would be open from 10.00 a.m. to 7.00 pal.

every day until Sunday, December 2.

This year we have some 30 participants showing jobs in a wide

range of spheres, covering industry, commerce and government. All in

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all, there will be some 100 jobs shown," he said.

"Young people