XN000022-1981-06-06 — Page 2

SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 1981

SEPARATE ADMINISTRATION FOR NT COURT

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THERE WILL BE A SEPARATELY-ADMINISTERED NEW TERRITORIES DISTRICT COURT CONSISTING OF THE TSUEN WAN AND FANLING COURTS AS FROM JUNE 15, A SPOKESMAN FOR THE JUDICIARY ANNOUNCED TODAY (SATURDAY).

AT PRESENT, THE TSUEN WAN AND FANLING COURTS COME UNDER THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE KOWLOON COURT.

+THIS IS NOT ONLY INEFFICIENT BUT CAUSES CONSIDERABLE INCONVENIENCE TO RESIDENTS OF THE NEW TERRITORIES WHO, FOR SOME PURPOSES, HAVE TO TRAVEL TO KOWLOON IN CONNECTION WITH THEIR LITIGATION, THE SPOKESMAN SAID.

+A SEPARATELY-ADMINISTERED NEW TERRITORIES DISTRICT COURT CAN SAVE THEM THE JOURNEY AS A DEPUTY REGISTRAR WILL BE APPOINTED TO SIT PARTLY AT TSUEN WAN AND PARTLY AT FANLING, HE ADDED.

AT THE SAME TIME, THE TSUEN WAN DISTRICT COURT WILL BE ENLARGED TO TAKE IN THE CASTLE PEAK AND TUEN MUN AREAS FOR THE PURPOSE OF CIVIL PROCEEDINGS. IT NOW COVERS TSUEN WAN, KWAI CHUNG AND TS ING YI.

THE SPOKESMAN EXPRESSED HOPE THAT RESIDENTS OF THE NEW TERRITORIES WHO HAVE RECOURSE TO THE DISTRICT COURTS WOULD FIND THE NEW ARRANGEMENTS CONVENIENT.

PART-TIME LECTURERS NEEDED FOR TECHNICAL INSTITUTES

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APPLICATIONS ARE NOW BEING INVITED FOR PART-TIME EVENING LECTURING POSTS IN THE FIVE TECHNICAL INSTITUTES OF THE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT IN SEPTEMBER THIS YEAR.

AT PRESENT THERE ARE ABOUT 900 PART-TIME LECTURERS TEACHING IN OVER 600 PART-TIME CLASSES OF THE INSTITUTES WITH AN ENROLMENT OF OVER 20 000 STUDENTS, A SPOKESMAN FOR THE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT SAID.

+MOST OF THESE LECTURERS ARE IN THE TEACHING PROFESSION, AND MANY OF THEM HAVE BEEN TEACHING IN THE TECHNICAL INSTITUTES AS PART-TIME LECTURERS FOR MORE THAN 10 YEARS, HE SAID.

EVENING CLASSES ARE USUALLY CONDUCTED BETWEEN 7 PM AND 9 PM.

+APART FROM BEING CONDUCTED IN TECHNICAL INSTITUTE PREMISES, EVENING CLASSES ARE ALSO ACCOMMODATED IN A NUMBER OF OUTLYING CENTRES IN SCHOOLS THROUGHOUT HONG KONG, THE SPOKESMAN SAID.

/TEACHING VACANCIES