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SUNDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1981

SAI KUNG DISTRICT COMMUNITY CHEST WALK

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THE REGIONAL NEW TERRITORIES SECRETARY, MR IAN MACPHERSON, STARTED THE SAI KUNG DISTRICT COMMUNITY CHEST WALK THIS MORNING (SUNDAY).

THE WALK, VER AN EIGHT-KILOMETRE COURSE FROM PAK TAM CHUNG WONG SHEK PIER, IS ONE OF SEVEN CHARITY WALKS FOR 1981/82.

7.E TARGET FOR THE WALK 3 $150 000.

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JOINING MR MACPHERSON AT TODAY'S RIBBON-CUTTING CEREMONY WERE THE ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, AGRICULTURE AND FISHERIES DEPARTMENT, MR JOHN WHOLEY SAI KUNG DISTRICT OFFICER, MR CHAN SUI-JEUNG- AND LOCAL LEADERS.

LAST YEAR, MOR

THAN 1 000 PEOPLE TOOK PART IN THE WALK AND RAISED OVER $100 000,

MEANWHILE ANOTHER WALK WAS HELD IN NORTH DISTRICT WHERE 3 000 PEOPLE SET OFF FROM FUNG KAI MIDDLE SCHOOL, SHEUNG SHUI.

IT WAS DIVIDED INTO THREE ROUTES, RANGING FROM SIX TO NINE KILOMETRES IN LENGTH.

AMONG THE GUESTS AT THE STARTING CEREMONY WERE THE INDEPENDENT COMMISSION AGAINST CORRUPTION COMMISSIONER, MR ... WILLIAMS- THE DISTRICT POLICE COMMANDER (NEW TERRITORIES)

MR MIKE ILLINGWORTH THE DISTRICT OFFICER, MR PETER JOHNSON- AND LC ́AL DIGNITARIES.

WALKS HAVE BEE HELD AT TUEN MUN/YUEN LONG AND ON HONG KONG ISLAND AS PART OF THIS YEAR'S PROGRAMME. OTHERS TO BE HELD INCLUDE A MACLEHOSE TRAIL WALK ( (FEBRUARY 28) AND A KOWLOON WALK MARCH

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A SHA TIN WALK

MORE PRIVATE CARS

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THERE WERE ME THAN 209 900 REGISTERED PRIVATE CARS AT THE END OF NOVEMBER THIS YEAR, AN INCREASE OF MORE THAN 21 700 OR 11 PER CENT OVER THE NUMBE OF CARS REGISTERED IN NOVEMBER 1980.

THE NUMBER OF NEW CARS REGISTERED LAST MONTH WAS 2 564. WHILE LAPSES IN REGISTRATIONS TOTALLED 1 686, PRODUCING A NET INCREASE OF 878 CARS AND AN OVERALL TOTAL TO 209 961 PRIVATE CARS REGISTERED.

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