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Friday, March 8, 1974

DRUG ADDICTS RAISE $10,000 FOR CHARITY

Hong Kong probably leads the world in the fields of treatment

of drug addicts and rehabilitation of young offenders, the Commissioner

of Prisons, Mr. Ton Garner, said today.

"This has happened under a unique programme of the Prisons

Department which involves the co-operation between the staff and the

inmates and there is no better example than the ceremony for which

we are gathered today," he explained.

The prison chief was speaking at a ceremony held in the Tai

Lon Addiction Treatment Centre, at which cheques for almost $10,000

were presented to the Community Chest.

The money was raised by 30 inmates of the treatment contre

and the Chathan Road Training Centre who voluntarily took part in the

"Walk-For-A-Million" held by the Community Chest in Kowloon on February 17.

A number of staff members of the two institutions also joined the walk.

This is the third successive year in which inmates of the

institutions had taken part in the fund-raising walk.

Commenting on the participation of the inmates in the walk,

Mr. Garner said it narked a very important mile-stone within the work

of the Prisons Deparartment in the context of who were involved

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