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DAILY INFORMATION BULLETIN

SUNDAY, APRIL 14, 1974

PRH 7

GOVERNMENT EMPLOYING MORE DISABLED PEOPLE

MORE GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS ARE EMPLOYING DISABLED PEOPLE, ACCORDING TO MR. CHAN SHIU-HING, OFFICER-IN-CHARGE OF THE SOCIAL WELFARE DEPARTMENT'S JOB PLACEMENT UNIT.

IN HIS MONTHLY REPORT ON THE PROGRESS OF FINDING WORK FOR THE DISABLED DURING HARCH, HE SAID OFFICERS OF HIS UNIT HAD ARRANGED JOBS OR JOB INTERVIEWS WITH GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS FOR 10 PEOPLE WITH DIFFERENT DISABILITIES.

OF THIS NUMBER, THREE VORC EMPLOYED AS MESSENGERS BY THE SOCIAL WELFARE DEPARTMENT AND QUE, ALSO AS MESSENGER, BY THE URBAN SERVICES DEPARTMENT. ANOTHER STARTED UGRK AT THE BEGINNING OF THIS MONTH AS A WATCHMAN UITH THE GOVERNMENT SUPPLIES DEPARTMENT.

THE OTHERS ARE CURRENTLY UNDERGOING THE USUAL PROCESSING FOR JOBS AND IT IS EXPECTED THAT AT LEAST TUO WILL BE EMPLOYED AS LABOURERS IN THE MEDICAL AND HEALTH DEPARTMENT AND THE ROYAL HONGKONG POLICE FORCE.

THE PRIVATE SECTOR TOO. KR. CHAN REPORTED, HAD INCREASED ITS INTAKE OF DISABLED PEOPLE WITH THE LARGEST NUMBER BEING TAKEN ON BY INDUSTRY.

THE FRANKI TOYS AND DOLLS MANUFACTURERS AND EXPORTERS LIMITED EMPLOYED 13 DISABLED PERSONS AS PACKERS AND INTENDS ENGAGING MORE THIS MONTH AS MACHINE SEWING VORKERS.

MR. CHAN SAID A TOTAL OF 31 DISABLED PEOPLE WERE FOUND WORK IN MARCH, EIGHT MORE THAN THE PREVIOUS MONTH.

THEY COMPRISED AN EX-WENTAL PATIENT, ONE MENTALLY RETARDED, AN EX-LEPER, TUO BLIND, TWO WHO WERE CURED OF TUBERCULOSIS, FIVE DEAF AND 19 CRIPPLES. ·

THEY WERE GIVEN JOBS AS A CARPENTER, A PROOF-READER, A KEYBOARD TYPESETTER, A LIFT-OPERATOR, A CARETAKER, MACHINE SEWING WORKERS, ASSEMBLERS, PACKERS, MESSENGERS AND GENERAL FACTORY HORKERS.

Issued by Government Information Services, Beaconsfield House, Hong Kong. Tel: 5-233191

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