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THURSDAY, APRIL 29, 1382

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HE SAID SOME $830 000 WAS SPENT ON CULTURE AND ENTERTAINMENT AND $1.7 MILLION ON RECREATION AND SPORTS LAST YEAR. FURTHERMORE A WHOLE RANGE OF ACTIVITIES WAS BEING CARRIED OUT BY BOTH GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS AND VARIOUS ASSOCIATIONS AND AGENCIES.

DESPITE ALL THESE, HE SAID, TSUEN WAN WAS FACING A CONSIDERABLE TASK IN TAKING THOUSANDS OF NEWCOMERS INTO ITS COMMUNITY AND MAKING THEM FEEL PART OF IT.

+WHILE WE WILL TACKLE THIS TASK WITH VIGOUR, WE WILL NEED YOUR HELP. AND WE SHOULD NOT UNDERESTIMATE THE TASK THE POPULATION OF TSUEN WAN MAY WELL REACH ONE MILLION BY THE END OF THIS DECADE, HE ADDED.

POLICE CHIEF TO INSPECT CAS PARADE ****

THE COMMISSIONER OF POLICE, MR ROY HENRY, WILL INSPECT THE 25TH CIVIL AID SERVICES PASSING-OUT PARADE ON SATURDAY (MAY 1) AND PRESENT SPECIAL CERTIFICATES TO 240 NEW ADULT AND YOUNG RECRUITS.

THE PARADE WILL BE HELD AT THE ROYAL HONG KONG AUXILIARY POLICE FORCE HEADQUARTERS, HARBOUR ROAD, HONG KONG, STARTING AT 7 PM.

THE RECRUITS HAVE JUST COMPLETED THEIR BASIC TRAINING IN FIRST AID, LIGHT RESCUE, FOREST FIRE FIGHTING, COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT, TYPHOON DUTIES AND OTHER USEFUL SKILLS,

THEY WILL BE POSTED TO VARIOUS CAS UNITS SCATTERED THROUGHOUT THE TERRITORY WHERE THEIR SKILLS WILL BE PUT TO GOOD USE.

MR HENRY WILL ALSO PRESENT CIVIL DEFENCE LONG SERVICE CLASPS TO A NUMBER OF OTHER CAS MEMBERS.

THE CAS BAND WILL PERFORM AT THE PRESENTATION CEREMONY.

NOTE TO EDITORS:

MEDIA REPRESENTATIVES ARE INVITED TO COVER THE 25TH CAS PASSING-OUT PARADE TO BE HELD ON SATURDAY (MAY 1) STARTING AT 7 PM, AT THE RHKAPF HEADQUARTERS, HARBOUR ROAD, HONG KONG.

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