TUESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1983
HANDY ALMANAC TELLS ABOUT WEATHER, TIDES
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A HANDY BILINGUAL ALMANAC FOR 1984, USEFUL FOR STUDENTS, SCIENTISTS, BOATING ENTHUSIASTS AND THE SEAFARING COMMUNITY, HAS JUST BEEN PRODUCED FOR THE FIRST TIME BY THE ROYAL OBSERVATORY.
IT CONTAINS TIMES OF DAILY SUNRISE, SUNSET, MOONRISE, MOONSET, HIGH AND LOW TIDES ARRANGED ON A MONTH BY MONTH BASIS.
NOW ON SALE AT $8 A COPY, THE 30-PAGE BOOKLET, LISTS OUT THE GENERAL HOLIDAYS OF THE YEAR AND PROVIDES THE METEOROLOGICAL (AIR TEMPERATURE, AMOUNT OF RAIN, NUMBER OF RAINY DAYS) NORMALS OF ASIAN CITIES.
A TABLE SHOWING MONTHLY AVERAGES OF SELECTED METEOROLOGICAL ELEMENTS IN HONG KONG FROM 1951 TO 1980 IS ALSO INCLUDED IN THE ALMANAC, WHICH HAS BEEN PUBLISHED TO ACKNOWLEDGE THE WORK DONE BY VOLUNTARY WEATHER OBSERVERS AND STORM SIGNAL OPERATORS.
THE TIME SCALE USED THROUGHOUT THIS ALMANAC IS EIGHT HOURS AHEAD OF CO-ORDINATED UNIVERSAL TIME (UTC), WHICH FOR MOST PRACTICAL PURPOSES IS THE SAME AS GREENWICH MEAN TIME (GMT).
TIMES OF SUNRISE, SUNSET, MOONRISE AND MOONSET ARE DERIVED FROM PRELIMINARY DATA AVAILABLE AT THE TIME OF COMPILATION OF THIS ALMANAC AND MAY DIFFER FROM THE FINAL COMPUTED VALUES BY ABOUT ONE MINUTE.
TIDAL PREDICTIONS ARE BASED ON DATA SUPPLIED BY THE INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHIC SCIENCES, AND THE PREDICTIONS ARE FOR VICTORIA HARBOUR.
THE BOOKLET IS AVAILABLE FROM THE GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS CENTRE, G.P.O. BUILDING, GROUND FLOOR, HONG KONG AND THE ROYAL OBSERVATORY.
STUDENTS URGED TO TAKE PART IN DISTRICT AFFAIRS ****
STUDENTS SHOULD CONTRIBUTE TO THE COMMUNITY BY PARTICIPATING MORE IN DISTRICT AFFAIRS, THE TSUEN WAN DISTRICT COMMISSIONER, MR ADOLF HSU, SAID TODAY (TUESDAY).
ADDRESSING GRADUATES AT THE SPEECH DAY OF THE TSUEN WAN PUBLIC HO CHUEN YIU MEMORIAL COLLEGE, HE SAID: THE GOVERNMENT IS ACTIVELY PROMOTING DISTRICT ADMINISTRATION AND YOU CAN AT LEAST FULFIL THE RESPONSIBILITY OF A CITIZEN BY REGISTERING AS A DISTRICT BOARD ELECTOR.
+BUT | HOPE YOU WILL INVOLVE YOURSELVES MORE IN DISTRICT ADMINISTRATION BY DIRECTLY TAKING PART IN DISTRICT AFFAIRS TO IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF LIFE OF LOCAL PEOPLE.+
/MB HSU
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