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SATURDAY, MAY 8, 1982

+FOR THIS REASON, THIS AREA OF SOCIAL WORK FACES PARTICULAR PROBLEMS IN THE RECRUITMENT OF TRAINED SOCIAL WORKERS,+ HE SAID.

HE WENT ON + BELIEVE THE WILLINGNESS OF SOCIAL WORKERS TO GO OUT TO SEEK AND WHERE POSSIBLE PREVENT SOCIAL PROBLEMS, WHICH AFFECT OUR YOUNG PEOPLE, IS CRITICAL IN UNDERLINING THE RELEVANCE OF SOCIAL WORK METHODS IN SERVICES TO CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE.

+THE FAILURE OF AGENCIES TO RETAIN TRAINED WORKERS IN THE OUTREACH FIELD, HOWEVER, MAKES IT EXTREMELY DIFFICULT, ON THE ONE" HAND, TO EVALUATE ITS IMPACT AND ON THE OTHER TO PLAN A LONG-TERM ROLE FOR THIS TYPE OF SERVICE IN HONG KONG.+

LECTURES AND DEMONSTRATIONS ON TREE PLANTING

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THE NEW TERRITORIES SERVICES DEPARTMENT HAS STARTED A SERIES OF LECTURES AND DEMONSTRATIONS ON TREE PLANTING, CARE AND MAINTENANCE OF SHRUBS, CLIMBERS AND CREEPERS FOR SCHOOLS IN THE NEW TERRITORIES.

SINCE EARLY LAST MONTH, DISTRICT AMENITIES OFFICERS OF THE DEPARTMENT HAD VISITED A NUMBER OF SCHOOLS AND ARRANGED AMENITY PLOTS FOR THE CHILDREN TO PRACTISE TREE PLANTING.

A SPOKESMAN SAID THE LECTURES AND DEMONSTRATIONS WERE AIMED AT ENLISTING MORE YOUNGSTERS TO TAKE PART IN THE 'MAI FA' PHASE - BEAUTIFICATION SCHEME OF THE CLEAN HONG KONG CAMPAIGN.

EARLY LAST WEEK, 300 SHA TIN STUDENTS FROM SEVERAL SCHOOLS ATTENDED A LECTURE ON TREE PLANTING HELD AT PUI YING MIDDLE SCHOOL.

TODAY (SATURDAY) SOME 20 YOUNGSTERS, WHO WERE MEMBERS OF THE SHENG KUNG HUI SHA TIN SOCIAL SERVICES CENTRE, GATHERED AT AN OPEN SPACE AT TUNG LO WAN TSUEN FOR A PRACTICE COURSE ON TREE PLANTING AND DEMONSTRATED THE IR SKILL.

THE YOUNGSTERS PLANTED SEVERAL PELTOPHORUM PTEROCARPUM THERE. THE TREE, GENERALLY FOUND AT SHA TIN ROADSIDE, IS

A MEDIUM-SIZED DECIDUOUS TREE THAT CAN REACH 7.5 METRES IN HEIGHT WITH A SPREADING CROWN AND GRACEFUL FEATHERY LEAVES.

THE DISTRICT AMENITIES OFFICER OF SHA TIN, MR CHAN HUNG-YING, WAS PRESENT AT THE TREE PLANTING ACTIVITY TO GIVE GUIDANCE TO THE YOUNGSTERS.

PAYING TRIBUTE TO THE YOUNGSTERS, MR CHAN EXPRESSED HIS HOPE THAT THEY WOULD BRING HOME THE MESSAGE OF PLANTING AND CAR ING OF TREES TO THEIR FRIENDS TO HELP IMPLEMENT THE BEAUT IF ICATION SCHEME.

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