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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1983
+1 + HOPE THE MESSAGE OF OUR CAMPAIGN, WHICH EMPHASISES HOW AN ADDICT CAN MAKE HIS WHOLE FAMILY SUFFER, WILL REACH EVERY SINGLE RESIDENT, HE SAID.
HE ADDED THAT DRUG ABUSE WAS NOT ONLY A DISTRICT PROBLEM, ALSO A WORLDWIDE ISSUE.
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THE CAMPAIGN'S ORGANISING COMMITTEE HAD THUS INVITED DELEGATES TO THE SECOND PAN PACIFIC CONFERENCE ON DRUGS AND ALCOHOL IN HONG KONG TO AN ANTI-NARCOTICS VARIETY SHOW AT THE KO SHAN THEATRE TOMORROW (SUNDAY) EVENING.
AT TODAY'S EXHIBITION, INFORMATION ON LAW AND ENFORCEMENT, YOUTH INVOLVEMENT IN DRUGS AND TRAFFICKING AND SMUGGLING OF DRUGS WERE PROVIDED.
IT ALSO INTRODUCED THE REHABILITATION WORK FOR, AND COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT OF, EX-DRUG ADDICTS.
ON DISPLAY WERE SPECIMENS OF DIFFERENT TYPES OF DRUGS AND PARAPHERNALIA USED BY THE ADDICTS.
THE EXHIBITION WILL BE STAGED AT THE KO SHAN ROAD PARK TOMORROW.
THE CAMPAIGN IS JOINTLY ORGANISED BY THE DISTRICT OFFICE, THE NARCOTICS DIVISION OF THE GOVERNMENT SECRETARIAT, THE NARCOTICS BUREAU OF THE POLICE, AND THE SOCIETY FOR THE AID AND REHABILITATION OF DRUG ADDICTS.
SEVENTH I.D. CARD PHASE STARTS MONDAY *****
MEN BORN IN 1955 AND 1954 WERE TODAY (SATURDAY) REMINDED THAT FROM MONDAY (DECEMBER 5), IT WILL BE THE IR TURN TO APPLY FOR NEW IDENTITY CARDS.
UNDER THE SEVENTH PHASE OF THE NEW I.D. CARD ISSUE SCHEME THESE TWO AGE GROUPS WILL BE GIVEN FIVE WEEKS TO HAVE THEIR OLD CARDS REPLACED.
A SPOKESMAN FOR THE IMMIGRATION DEPARTMENT SAID:
+THEY SHOULD CALL AT ANY OF THE EIGHT NEW I.D. CARD ISSUE OFFICES, BETWEEN 8 AM AND 9.30 PM, MONDAYS TO SATURDAYS, BEFORE THIS PHASE CLOSES ON JANUARY 7, 1984.
+THEY SHOULD ALSO BRING ALONG THEIR OLD IDENTITY CARDS, WHICH WILL HAVE TO BE SURRENDERED WHEN THEY RETURN TO COLLECT THEIR NEW CARDS AFTER 18 WORKING DAYS.+
/THE SPOKESMAN
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