FRIDAY, MAY 27, 1983'
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THE DISTRICT OFFICER, MR CHAN SUI-JEUNG, INFORMED THE GOVERNOR THAT THE OLD TOWN WOULD BE RETAINED" IN ITS PRESENT FORM. BUT SOME STREETS WILL BE PEDESTRIANISED, DRAINAGE INSTALLED AND URBAN IMPROVEMENTS INCLUDED.
THE ENTIRE MARKET, INCLUDING THE WHOLESALE FISH MARKET WILL BE MOVED TO A NEARBY SITE IN MID 1985 TO MAKE WAY FOR AN URBAN PARK.
THE PARTY ALSO STOPPED AT A JETTY WHERE PROPOSED RECLAMATION WILL LINK TUI HIN HOI WITH THE SAI KUNG TOWN WATERFRONT.
WORK ON 300 HOUSING SOCIETY FLATS WILL START LATER THIS YEAR ON TUI MIN HOT, AND UPON COMPLETION IN 1987 THEY WILL PROVIDE ACCOMMODATION FOR 1 500 PEOPLE.
THE PARTY LATER STOPPED BRIEFLY AT A TWO-CENTURY-OLD TIN HAU TEMPLE BEFORE PROCEEDING TO THE SPORTS GROUND FOR THE OPENING CEREMONY.
SECOND PHASE OF ID CARD SCHEME STARTS JUNE 6
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THE SECOND PHASE OF THE NEW IDENTITY CARD ISSUE SCHEME WILL BEGIN ON JUNE 6, THE IMMIGRATION DEPARTMENT ANNOUNCED TODAY (FRIDAY).
FROM THEN UNTIL JULY 9, MEN BORN IN 1963 WILL BE REQUIRED TO EXCHANGE THEIR EXISTING IDENTITY CARDS FOR NEW ONES.
IT IS ESTIMATED THAT ABOUT 61 000 MEN IN THIS AGE GROUP WILL TURN UP DURING THE FIVE-WEEK PERIOD.
A DEPARTMENT SPOKESMAN SAID: +APPLICATIONS MUST BE MADE IN PERSON TO ANY OF THE EIGHT NEW ID CARD ISSUE OFFICES IN HONG KONG, KOWLOON AND THE NEW TERRITORIES.
+THESE OFFICES ARE OPEN FROM 8 AM TO 9.30 PM, MONDAYS TO SATURDAYS, SO THAT THOSE WHO ARE BUSY IN THE DAYTIME DURING WEEKDAYS CAN GO THERE IN THE EVENING OR AT WEEKENDS.+
THE SPOKESMAN REMINDED APPLICANTS TO TAKE ALONG THEIR OLD ID CARDS WHEN THEY GO TO THESE OFFICES.
HE SAID: THE PROCESSING WILL TAKE ONLY HALF AN HOUR AND THE APPLICANTS WILL BE INFORMED OF THE DATE TO PICK UP THEIR NEW CARDS.+
THE APPLICANT WILL HAVE TO SURRENDER HIS OLD CARD ON RECEIVING THE NEW ONE,+ HE ADDED.
BY YESTERDAY 46 000 APPLICATIONS HAD BEEN RECEIVED IN THE FIRST PHASE OF THE SCHEME COVERING MEN BORN IN 1964,
THE SPOKESMAN URGED ALL OTHER 19-YEAR-OLD YOUTHS WHO HAD NOT YET APPLIED TO DO SO BEFORE THE CLOSING DATE ON JUNE 4.
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