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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1983

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PRODUCTIVE POTENTIAL SEEN IN PRISONS

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THERE IS +ENORMOUS PRODUCTIVE AND LEARNING POTENTIAL+ IN THE CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTIONS, THE ACTING EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE VOCATIONAL TRAINING COUNCIL, MR HORACE KNIGHT, SAID TODAY.

THE +WORKFORCE+ THERE CAN PRODUCE PRODUCTS AND ACQUIRE SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE WHICH ARE RELEVANT TO THE NEEDS OF THE COMMUNITY INSTEAD OF WHILING THE TIME AWAY IN BITTERNESS AND HOPELESSNESS, HE ADDED.

MR KNIGHT WAS SPEAKING AT A CEREMONY HELD TODAY AT PIK UK CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTION DURING WHICH HE PRESENTED CERTIFICATES TO EIGHT YOUNG PRISONERS WHO PASSED THE CITY AND GUILDS EXAMINATION WITH HONOURS.

ELEVEN DISTINCTIONS, NINE CREDITS AND ONE PASS WERE OBTAINED BY THE EIGHT PEOPLE WHO SAT FOR THE CITY AND GUILDS OF LONDON INSTITUTE'S TELECOMMUNICATION TECHNICIANS LEVEL ONE EXAMINATION IN MAY THIS YEAR.

THE TELECOMMUNICATION TECHNICIANS COURSE COMPRISES CLASSROOM LECTURES AND WORKSHOP PRACTICE, COVERING PRACTICAL MATHEMATICS, ENGINEERING SCIENCE AND ELEMENTARY TELECOMMUNICATION PRACTICE.

IT WAS INTRODUCED IN PIK UK CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTION IN 1978, AND SOME 60 PRISONERS HAVE SINCE THEN TAKEN THE EXAMINATIONS. MOST OF THE DISCHARGED PRISONERS ARE NOW EMPLOYED IN THE ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY, SOME HAVE CONTINUED THEIR STUDIES AT HIGHER LEVELS, AND ONE OF THEM HAS EVEN SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETED THE FOUR-YEAR COURSE.

RESIDENTS ADVISED ABOUT PORK PURCHASE

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TUEN MUN RESIDENTS WERE ADVISED TODAY IN THEIR OWN HEALTH INTERESTS TO BUY PORK ONLY FROM PROPER MARKET STALLS OR LICENSED SHOPS.

GIVING THE ADVICE, A NEW TERRITORIES SERVICES DEPARTMENT SPOKESMAN EXPLAINED THAT ALL THE 11 +TOLERATED+ UNLICENSED PRIVATE SLAUGHTER HOUSES WILL BE PROHIBITED FROM OPERATING FROM THE END OF THIS YEAR.

THE SPOKESMAN EXPLAINED THAT THE 11 UNLICENSED PRIVATE SLAUGHTER HOUSES AT TUEN MUN HAD BEEN TOLERATED SINCE JANUARY 1979, AS THEY HAD BEEN LONG-ESTABLISHED, BUT ONLY ON CONDITION THAT THEY COMPLIED WITH CERTAIN BASIC HEALTH REQUIREMENTS.

/+ADDITIONALLY, MASY