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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1982

HE ALSO SPOKE HIGHLY OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF PRISON INDUSTRIES WHOSE OUTPUT WAS VALUED AT $57 MILLION THIS YEAR.

MR DAVIES INSPECTED THE PARADE AND PRESENTED SILVER WHISTLES TO THE TWO BEST ALL-ROUND RECRUITS, MR NG KIN-ON AND MISS SIN PUI-WAH, BOTH OF THEM ASSISTANT OFFICERS.

JPC MEMBERS LAUNCH TREE-PLANTING DAY

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SOME 50 YOUNGSTERS TOOK PART IN A TREE-PLANTING EXERCISE IN TUEN MUN TODAY (SATURDAY) TO HELP BEAUTIFY THE ENVIRONMENT OF THE NEW TOWN.

THE YOUNGSTERS, ALL MEMBERS OF THE JUNIOR POLICE CALL IN TUEN MUN HAD JUST COMPLETED AN EIGHT-SESSION HORTICULTURE COURSE ORGANISED BY THE NEW TERRITORIES SERVICES DEPARTMENT THIS YEAR.

THE TREE-PLANTING EXERCISE, JOINTLY ORGANISED BY THE TUEN MUN POLICE STATION AND THE NTSD WAS HELD AT THE OPEN SPACE BEHIND THE TAI HING NEIGHBOURHOOD POLICE UNIT AT TAI HING ESTATE TO MARK THE CONCLUSION OF THEIR HORTICULTURE COURSE.

OFFICIATING AT THE CEREMONY TO START THE TREE-PLANTING EXERCISE THE ASSISTANT DIRECTOR (NORTH REGION) OF NEW TERRITORIES SERVICES, MR BOWEN LEUNG, SAID THE COURSE HAD ACHIEVED THE AIM OF AROUSING YOUNG PEOPLE'S INTEREST IN TREE-PLANTING AND IN BEAUTIFYING THE ENVIRONMENT.

MR LEUNG NOTED THAT APART FROM ATTENDING LECTURES ON VARIOUS ASPECTS OF TREE-PLANTING, THE JPC MEMBERS ALSO TOOK PART IN FIELD WORKS TO TURN A BARREN SPOT INTO A BEAUTIFUL GARDEN UNDER THE GUIDANCE OF HORTICULTURE EXPERTS OF HIS DEPARTMENT.

HE SAID HE EXPECTED THE YOUNGSTERS TO BRING HOME THE 'MEI FA' (BEAUT IF ICATION) MESSAGE IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE CLEAN HONG KONG CAMPAIGN TO HELP MAKE OUR LIVING SURROUNDINGS GREENER AND A MORE PLEASANT PLACE TO LIVE IN.

MR LEUNG POINTED OUT THAT THE EXERCISE REPRESENTED THE BEGINNING OF A SERIES OF TREE-PLANTING ACTIVITIES AND DISCLOSED THE NTSD WILL LAUNCH MORE HORTICULTURE COURSES. THE NEXT ONE WILL BE HELD IN OCTOBER FOR ANOTHER 60 YOUNGSTERS IN TUEN MUN.

TO SHOW HIS APPRECIATION, MR LEUNG PRESENTED CERTIFICATES TO THE COURSE MEMBERS BEFORE THEY WERE JOINED BY 300 OTHER YOUNGSTERS OF THE JUNIOR POLICE CALL, TO PLANT 30 COTTON AND ELEPHANT'S EAR TREES.

THE CHAIRMAN OF HEUNG YEE KUK, MR LAU WONG-FAT, THE DIVISIONAL SUPERINTENDENT OF TUEN MUN, MR J.G. HURST, THE ASSISTANT DISTRICT OFFICER OF TUẸN MUN, MR HUŤ CHI-WAI, AND THE CHIEF HOUSING MANAGER (WEST), MR MOK YIU-KWONG ALSO TOOK PART IN THE TREE-PLANTING EVENT.

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