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MONDAY, MAY 29, 1978

+A GREAT DEAL HAS HAPPENED IN THE SIX YEARS SINCE 1972,+ PR. HADDON-CAVE CONTINUED. THE NUMBER OF FULL-TIME EQUIVALENT STUDENTS HAD INCREASED FROM 3,500 TO 9,000. ANNUALLY, RECURRENT EXPENDITURE HAD INCREASED EIGHT TIMES FROM $15.6 MILLION IN 1972-73 TO $123 PILLION IN 1977-78.

CONCURRENTLY, AN AMBITIOUS BUILDING PROGRAMME HAD BEEN PUT

IN TRAIL, IN THE FIRST STAGE OF WHICH A MULTI-PURPOSE TEACHING BLOCK AND A NEW LIBRARY WERE COMPLETED AND OCCUPIED IN 1976 AT A COST OF NEARLY $100 MILLION.

WORK ON PHASE 11, CONSISTING OF WORKSHOP ACCOMMODATION FOR THE TEXTILES DEPARTMENT, THE NAUTICAL STUDIES BUILDING ON DYERS AVENUE AND THE COMMUNITY CENTRE BEGAN TWO YEARS AGO AT AN ESTIMATED COST OF $39 MILLION.

MR. HADDON-CAVE CONTINUED: +AS I JUST SAID, THERE ARE NOW ABOUT 9,000 FULL TIME EQUIVALENT STUDENTS ON THIS CAMPUS.

+THIS MEANS, OF COURSE, A MUCH LARGER NUMBER OF ACTUAL PEOPLE, PROBABLY AS MANY AS 25,000, ALMOST ALL OF WHOM WILL USE THIS FACILITY AT SOME TIME OR OTHER.

+ IN ADDITION, HE SAID, THERE ARE ABOUT 630 FULL-TIME ACADEMIC STAFF, ABOUT 300 DEPARTMENTAL SUPPORT STAFF AND ABOUT 650 NON-ACADEMIC AND ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF, MAKING A TOTAL ESTABLISHMENT OF ABOUT 1,600, AND THIS DOES NOT INCLUDE PART TIME TEACHERS RUNNING EVENING COURSES.

+THE TOTAL NUMBER OF PEOPLE MILLING ABOUT ON THIS CAMPUS, THEREFORE, IS GETTING ON FOR 27,000. BY 1980-81 IT WILL BE AECUT 32,000,+ MR. HADDON-CAVE SAID.

SECRETARY OF STATE FOR SOCIAL SERVICES AND MP TO VISIT KELFARE INSTITUTIONS

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THE VISITING SECRETARY OF STATE FOR SOCIAL SERVICES, THE RT. HON. DAVID ENNALS, H.P., AND MR. RODERICK MACFARQUHAR, M.P. WILL VISIT A NUMBER OF WELFARE INSTITUTIONS TOMORROW (TUESDAY).

THEY WILL SEE FOR THEMSELVES THE WORK AND ACTIVITIES OF THE JOHN F. KENNEDY CENTRE AT SANDY BAY, THE KAI CHI CHILDREN'S CENTRE AND ABERDEEN REHABILITATION CENTRE IN ABERDEEN AND THE WAH HONG HOSTEL FOR THE ELDERLY IN WAH FU ESTATE.

ACCOMPANYING THEM ON THE VISITS WILL BE MRS. ROSE GOODSTADT, HEAD OF THE SOCIAL WELFARE DEPARTMENT'3 REHABILITATION DIVISION.

THE JOHN F. KENNEDY CENTRE, RUN BY THE HONG KONG RED CROSS WITH GOVERNMENT FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE, IS A RESIDENTIAL-CUM-DAY CENTRE FOR PHYSICALLY HANDICAPPED CHILDREN AGED FOUR TO 17 YEARS.

/WITH AN