NOTE TO EDITORS:
FRIDAY, MARCH 16, 1979
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OPENING OF NEW CENTRE FOR THE DEAF
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THE DIRECTOR OF SOCIAL WELFARE, MR. THOMAS LEE, WILL TOMORROW (SATURDAY) OFFICIATE AT THE OPENING CEREMONY OF A MULTI-PURPOSE CENTRE FOR THE DEAF IN OF MAN ESTATE, KOWLOON.
THE CENTRE, FINANCED BY A GRANT FROM THE LOTTERIES FUND THROUGH THE SOCIAL WELFARE DEPARTMENT AND A DONATION FROM THE LIONS INTERNATIONAL DISTRICT 303, PROVIDES A VARIETY OF SERVICES FOR THE DEAF, INCLUDING CASE COUNSELLING AND RECREATIONAL ACTIVITIES. IT IS RUN BY THE HONG KONG SOCIETY FOR THE DEAF.
YOU ARE WELCOME TO COVER THE OPENING CEREMONY WHICH WILL BE HELD AT 3 P.M. AT THE PODIUM ABOVE THE OI MAN ESTATE COMMERCIAL COMPLEX IN HO MAN TIN.
MEMORIAL TROPHY PRESENTED TO PRISONS DEPARTMENT
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IN THE EARLY MORNING OF NOVEMBER 17, 1958, A 23-YEAR-OLD PRISON OFFICER ON PATROL DUTY AT THE CAPE COLLINSON TRAINING CENTRE WAS ATTACKED AND KILLED BY SIX INMATES DURING AN ESCAPE ATTEMPT.
MR. SO SHUI-BOR WHO JOINED THE PRISONS DEPARTMENT IN APRIL 1957 ON TWO YEARS PROBATION, WAS BURIED WITH FULL HONOURS THE FOLLOWING DAY AT THE CHINESE PERMANENT CEMETRY IN ABERDEEN.
A LASTING MEMORIAL, TO BE KNOWN AS THE SO SHUI-BOR MEMORIAL CUP, WAS PRESENTED TO THE COMMISSIONER OF PRISONS MR. T.G. GARNER, ON BEHALF OF THE PRISON OFFICER'S CLUB, BY DR. J.H. YAP AND HIS WIFE DURING A SHORT BUT MOVING CEREMONY IN THE CLUB THIS (FRIDAY) EVENING.
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RECEIVING THE CUP, MR. GARNER SAID THE NAME SO SHUI-BOR HAS LONG BEEN REVERED BY THE STAFF OF THE DEPARTMENT, AND THE CONTINUED SUCCESS OF THE CAPE COLLINSON TRAINING CENTRE HAS BEEN, IN ITSELF, A MEMORIAL TO THIS OFFICER'S TRAGIC DEATH+.
+HOWEVER, I AM DELIGHTED AND PROUD TO ACCEPT THIS MAGNIFICANT AND LASTING MEMORIAL TO THE DEVOTION AND LOYALTY OF AN OFF ICER KILLED IN THE LINE OF HIS DUTY,+ HE ADDED.
DR. YAP, THE BROTHER-IN-LAW OF THE LATE MR. SO SHUI-BOR, AND A LIFE MEMBER OF THE CLUB, HAS RECENTLY RETIRED FROM GOVERNMENT SERVICE AS THE CONSULTANT DENTAL SURGEON WITH THE MEDICAL AND HEALTH DEPARTMENT.
/IT HAS BEEN
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