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SATURDAY, MARCH 13, 1982

PUBLIC URGED TO HELP YOUTH FIGHT CRIME

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MR DAVID AKERS-JONES, SECRETARY FOR CITY AND NEW TERRITORIES ADMINISTRATION TODAY (SATURDAY) URGED THE PUBLIC TO CONTINUE TO HELP THE YOUNG PEOPLE OF HONG KONG TO FIGHT CRIME AND TO BECOME RESPONSIBLE, HONEST CITIZENS OF THE FUTURE.

SPEAKING IN HIS CAPACITY AS THE CHAIRMAN OF THE FIGHT CRIME COMMITTEE AT THE GRAND FINAL OF THE FIGHT YOUTH CRIME DRAMA COMPETITION IN THE CITY HALL THEATRE, MR AKERS-JONES EMPHASISED THE NEED TO MEET THE CHALLENGE OF EVERY CHANGE IN SOCIETY WITH +A FIRM NEW RESPONSE+.

+YESTERDAY'S WORLD WAS DIFFERENT FROM TODAY: TOMORROW TOO, WILL BE DIFFERENT. TODAY'S TEMPTATIONS AND PROBLEMS FOR THE YOUNG ARE DIFFERENT FROM YESTERDAY AND THEY WILL BE DIFFERENT TOMORROW, HE SAID.

MR AKERS-JONES POINTED OUT THAT ACTIVITIES ORGANISED THIS YEAR IN SUPPORT OF THE FIGHT YOUTH CRIME HAD BEEN WELL SUPPORTED.

+OVER 1 000 YOUNG PEOPLE ENTERED THE SONG CONTEST; THE +STARS AGAINST CRIME PROJECT HAS BROUGHT NEW ENTHUSIASM AND ENCOURAGE- MENT TO THOUSANDS OF YOUNG PEOPLE; AND TONIGHT, THE THREE SCHOOLS TAKING PART IN THE DRAMA COMPETITION FINAL ARE SELECTED FROM 52 PARTICIPATING SCHOOLS.

+THESE COMPETITIONS AND ACTIVITIES, JUNIOR POLICE CALL AND OTHER EFFORTS, INCREASE YOUNG PEOPLE'S AWARENESS OF THE DESTRUCTIVE FORCES OF CRIME IN OUR COMMUNITY, AND UNITE THEM IN A COMMON RESOLVE TO REPLACE THE FORCES OF DESTRUCTION WITH THOSE OF CREATION,+ HE SAID.

HE ENDED WITH A MESSAGE OF THANKS TO ALL THOSE WHO HAD HELPED TO PLAN AND ORGANISE THESE EVENTS, AND THE SHELL COMPANY OF HONG KONG LTD., IN PARTICULAR, FOR ITS GENEROUS SPONSORSHIP OF THE DRAMA COMPETITION.

THE COMPETITION WAS ORGANISED BY THE GOVERNMENT INFORMATION SERVICES AS ONE OF THE MAJOR YOUTH PROJECTS FOR THE 1981/82 FIGHT CRIME CAMPAIGN.

COMPETING FOR CHAMPIONSHIP TONIGHT WERE THREE TEAMS FROM BUDDHIST SIN TAK COLLEGE, HO LAP COLLEGE AND MU KUANG ENGLISH SCHOOL RESPECTIVELY.

THE FIRST, SECOND AND THIRD WINNERS OF THE COMPETITION RECEIVED CASH PRIZES OF $3 000, $2 000 AND $1 000 RESPECTIVELY FROM MR J.F. MAASSEN OF THE SHELL COMPANY OF HONG KONG LTD.

THE THIRD AND FOURTH RUNNERS-UP EACH RECEIVED A CONSOLATION PRIZE OF $500.

TO ADD COLOUR TO THE PROGRAMME, THERE WAS A PERFORMANCE BY WINNERS OF THE FIGHT YOUTH CRIME SONG CONTEST HELD EARLIER THIS YEAR.

THIS EVENING'S EVENT AT THE CITY HALL THEATRE ATTRACTED A FULL

HOUSE.

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