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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1979

GROUP VISITS FROM SCHOOLS TO THE EXHIBITION ARE WELCOME AND ARRANGEMENTS CAN BE MADE BY CONTACTING MR. NG CHUN-YUEN OF THE YOUTH EMPLOYMENT ADVISORY SERVICE ON TELEPHONE : 3-022702.

NOTE TO EDITORS:

THE LABOUR DEPARTMENT'S CAREERS '80 EXHIBITION WILL BE OPENED BY SIR YUE-KONG PAO, CHAIRMAN OF WORLDWIDE SHIPPING GROUP, IN THE KOWLOON RAIL TERMINUS, HUNG HOM, AT 3.30 PM ON FRIDAY (NOVEMBER 30).

THERE WILL BE A PRESS PREVIEW OF THE DISPLAY STALLS AT 2.45 PM PRIOR TO THE OPENING CEREMONY.

MEDIA REPRESENTATIVES ARE INVITED TO COVER THE PREVIEW AND THE OPENING CEREMONY.

ACTING GOVERNOR ATTENDS ROUND TABLE'S SILVER JUBILEE DINNER

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THE ACTING GOVERNOR, SIR JACK CATER TONIGHT COMMENDED ROUND TABLERS FOR THE IR CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE COMMUNITY BY GIVING THEIR TIME, ENERGY AND HARD-EARNED CASH IN CARING FOR THE UNDER-PRIVILEGED.

SPEAKING AT THE ROUND TABLE'S SILVER JUBILEE DINNER AT THE HONG KONG CLUB, SIR JACK SAID OVER THE LAST 25 YEARS YOU HAVE EXPANDED AND HAVE ACHIEVED AN INTERNATIONAL RECOGNITION WHICH WAS CONFIRMED BY THE HOSTING OF THE COUNCIL OF YOUNG MEN'S SERVICE CLUBS IN HONG KONG IN 1975.

+YOUR REPUTATION RESTS ON THE SOLID FOUNDATION OF THE ACHIEVEMENTS OF MEMBERS PAST AND PRESENT AND IT IS ON THESE THAT YOU MUST CONTINUE TO BUILD, HE SAID.

THE FOLLOWING IS THE FULL TEXT OF THE SPEECH BY SIR JACK CATER 1

TWENTY FIVE YEARS AGO ON A DAY IN NOVEMBER WHICH, FOR REASONS UNKNOWN, WAS NOT PRECISELY RECORDED, THE HONG KONG ROUND TABLE NO. 1 RECEIVED ITS CHARTER. THE COMING INTO BEING OF ROUND TABLE NO. 1 IN FACT RESULTED FROM THE CHANCE MEETING OF THREE YOUNG MEN WHO ALL HAD PREVIOUS TABLE ASSOCIATIONS IN THE UK, AND IT TOOK PLACE IN THAT NOW LONG DEMOLISHED BUT THEN MUCH CHERISHED EDIFICE, THE HOTEL CECIL. FROM THAT SOMEWHAT CASUAL BEGINNING HAS SPRÚNG A STRONG AND ACTIVE COMMUNITY-WIDE ASSOCIATION COMPRISING IN ALL 10 TABLES, WHOSE MEMBERS INCLUDE A SCORE OF NATIONALITIES AND SEVERAL DIFFERENT CREEDS, UNITED BY A COMMON DESIRE TO GIVE THEIR TIME AND ENERGY AND HARD-EARNED CASH IN CARING FOR THE UNDER-PRIVILEGED IN THE COMMUNITY.

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