XN000022-1982-07-31 — Page 7

SATURDAY, HET

TAKING PART IN TODAY'S OPERATION WERE 50 GIRLS AND BOYS FROM ST FRANCIS CANOSSIAN COLLEGE AND WAH YAN COLLEGE OF KOWLOON, WHO PICKED UP AND COLLECTED A LARGE QUANTITY OF REFUSE AND EMPTY CANS LEFT BEHIND ON THE BEACH BY BEACHGOERS AND HOLIDAY- MAKERS.

CLEANSING STAFF OF THE NEW TERRITORIES SERVICES DEPARTMENT PROVIDED A BACK-UP SERVICE IN REMOVING THE GARBAGE.

ALSO PRESENT WERE THE ASSISTANT DISTRICT OFFICER OF SAI KUNG, MRS RITA LA, AND MEMBERS OF THE SAI KUNG DISTRICT BOARD INCLUDING MR LAU WAN-HE! AND MR WAN SHU-PUT.

NOTE TO EDITORS:

A PHOTOGRAPH SHOWING THE BEACH CLEAN-UP AT CLEARWATER BAY (SECOND) BEACH WILL BE SENT TO YOU BY FACSIMILE LATER TODAY.

TERRITORY-WIDE FOLK SONG COMPETITION PROVES POPULAR *****

THE +SWINGING SUMMER+ FOLK GROUP SINGING COMPETITION JOINTLY ORGANISED BY THE GOVERNMENT INFORMATION SERVICES AND RADIO TELEVISION HONG KONG HAS RECEIVED VERY GOOD RESPONSE FROM YOUNG FOLK SONG LOVERS,

SINCE THE LAUNCHING OF THE SINGING COMPETITION LATE LAST MONTH, MORE THAN 5 000 APPLICATION FORMS HAVE BEEN DISTRIBUTED. FOUR AUDITIONS FOR 1 500 APPLICATIONS HAVE BEEN HELD AND TWO MORE ARE BEING ARRANGED FOR ANOTHER 1 000 ENTRANTS.

THE COMPETITION IS ORGANISED AS A PART OF THIS YEAR'S

+SWINGING SUMMER+ TV PROGRAMME.

A SPOKESMAN FOR THE ORGANISERS SAID TODAY (SATURDAY) THAT THE FACT THAT SO MANY APPLICATIONS HAD BEEN RECEIVED REFLECTED A KEEN INTEREST IN THE TV PROGRAMME AND THE SINGING COMPETITION.

TWO PRELIMINARIES HAD BEEN HELD AT THE FIRST AND SECOND EPISODES OF THE TV SERIES ON TWO PREVIOUS SUNDAYS. THE THIRD PRELIMINARY WILL BE HELD AT THE THIRD EPISODE TO BE SCREENED AT TVB-JADE TOMORROW (SUNDAY) AT 12 NOON.

APART FROM THE SINGING COMPETITION, THE THIRD EPISODE WHICH IS CO-ORGANISED WITH THE PHYSICAL EDUCATION SECTION OF THE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT WILL FEATURE AN HOUP-LONG ENTERTAINMENT PROGRAMME BY TV CELEBRITIES, WINNIE CHIN, WAN CHI-KEUNG, KENT CHOI, MILLY FUNG AND BOBBY CHAN.