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SATURDAY, JULY 9, 1983

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WAN CHAI CLEAN UP NETS $10 000 FOR CHARITY

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A SUM OF $10 000 WAS RAISED AT THIS MORNING'S +SWEEPING FOR GOLD+ CLEAN-UP OPERATION IN WAN CHAI.

AT 9 AM, ABOUT 200 STUDENTS FROM THE HONG KONG WAH YAN COLLEGE GROUPED THEMSELVES INTO SIX TEAMS, AND EACH BEGAN CLEANING AN ENVIRONMENTAL BLACKSPOT IN THE DISTRICT.

THESE SIX LOCATIONS ARE STONE NULLAH LANE, CROSS STREET, JAFFE ROAD, BOWRINGTON STREET, TSAP CHEUNG STREET AND SUN CHUEN STREET.

BEFORE NOON, THEY HAD COLLECTED THE RUBBISH INTO DOZENS OF BAGS AND HANDED THEM TO THE NEARBY REFUSE COLLECTION POINTS.

A SUM OF MONEY WAS DONATED BY LOCAL COMMUNITY LEADERS FOR EACH BAG OF RUBBISH.

THE DONATION WAS PRESENTED TO A REPRESENTATIVE OF THE COMMUNITY CHEST AT A CLOSING CEREMONY HELD AT THE SOUTHORN PLAYGROUND AFTER THE CLEAN-UP OPERATION.

TODAY'S EVENT WAS ORGANISED BY THE WAN CHAI DISTRICT OFFICE, THE URBAN SERVICES DEPARTMENT, THE DISTRICT CLEAN HONG KONG CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE AND THE HONG KONG WAH YAN COLLEGE.

+THE PURPOSE OF THE EXERCISE IS TO ENCOURAGE STUDENTS TO MAKE GOOD USE OF THEIR SUMMER HOLIDAYS BY PARTICIPATING IN MEANINGFUL COMMUNITY SERVICE PROJECTS, SAID A DISTRICT OFFICE SPOKESMAN.

+IT ALSO AIMS AT DRIVING HOME THE CLEAN HONG KONG MESSAGE AND RAISING FUNDS FOR THE COMMUNITY CHEST,✦ HE ADDED.

TAI PO RAPIDLY CHANGING ****

TAI PO IS BEING TRANSFORMED FROM AN OLD MARKET INTO A WELL PLANNED NEW TOWN WHICH WILL EVENTUALLY ACCOMMODATE A QUARTER OF A MILLION PEOPLE.

THIS WAS STATED TODAY BY THE ACTING SECRETARY FOR DISTRICT ADMINISTRATION, MR IAN MACPHERSON, AT THE ANNUAL SPEECH DAY OF THE BUDDHIST TAI KWONG MIDDLE SCHOOL IN TAI PO.

JUST TWO YEARS AGO, THE POPULATION OF TAI PO WAS ONLY 74 000. TODAY, IT IS ALREADY NEAR THE 100 000 MARK,

+THIS WILL CONTINUE TO GROW IN THE NEXT FEW YEARS AS MANY MORE NEWCOMERS FROM OUTSIDE THE DISTRICT WILL COME TO LIVE IN THE PUBLIC HOUSING ESTATES AND THE PRIVATE RESIDENTIAL BLOCKS THAT ARE NOW BEING CONSTRUCTED, MR MACPHERSON SAID.

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