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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1985

'SIR DAVID ADDED THAT IT WAS QUITE USEFUL TO HAVE TALKS AT THE WORKING LEVEL PREVIOUS TO THAT.

TURNING TO UMELCO'S SPECIAL GROUP ON TAXATION SYSTEM,

SIR DAVID SAID HE DID NOT THINK THERE WERE ANY FIRM CONCLUSIONS YET AND IT WOULD BE QUITE IMPROPER FOR HIM TO COMMENT AT THE PRESENT TIME.

VOLUNTARY AGENCIES THANKED FOR CIVIC WORK

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THE SERVICES PROVIDED BY ALL VOLUNTARY AGENCIES ARE AN INCALCULABLE SOURCE OF STRENGTH IN THE SOCIETY, THE CHIEF SECRETARY, SIR DAVID AKERS-JONES, SAID TODAY (SATURDAY).

SUCH SERVICES AS NEIGHBOURHOOD LEVEL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS HELPED TO ENCOURAGE RESIDENTS TO BECOME INVOLVED, TO PROMOTE NEIGHBOURLINESS, AND TO DEVELOP SELF-HELP, HE SAID.

HE PAID TRIBUTE TO ALL THE AGENCIES THAT PROVIDED THEM.

SIR DAVID WAS SPEAKING AT THE OPENING OF THE YWCA CHEUNG CHING SOCIAL SERVICE CENTRE, CHEUNG CHING ELDERLY CENTRE, THE CHEUNG CHING NURSERY, THE CHEUNG WAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROJECT OFFICE, YAU ÓI SOCIAL SERVICE CENTRE AND WO CHE SOCIAL SERVICE CENTRE.

IN PARTICULAR, HE SAID, THE CHEUNG CHING ESTATE COMMUNITY CENTRE SERVED 60 000 RESIDENTS OF CHEUNG CHING AND CHEUNG HONG ESTATES.

IT WAS THE FOCAL POINT FOR COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES FOR ALL AGE GROUPS AND PROVIDED CO-ORDINATED WELFARE SERVICES UNDER ONE ROOF.

SIR DAVID ALSO THANKED THE YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION FOR 'ALL IT HAS DONE AND IT IS DOING FOR THE COMMUNITY' ON ITS 65TH ANNIVERSARY.

+ IN A CHRISTIAN SPIRIT OF SERVICE TO OTHERS, THE ASSOCIATION OVER A GREAT MANY YEARS HAS HELPED TENS OF THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE OF ALL AGES AND ALL WALKS OF LIFE,+ SIR DAVID SAID.

THE YWCA'S COMMITMENT IN SERVING THE COMMUNITY WAS SHOWN BY THE NURSERY, THE CHILDREN AND YOUTH CENTRE, THE STUDY ROOM AND SOCIAL CENTRE FOR THE ELDERLY AND THE NEIGHBOURHOOD COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROJECT IN CHEUNG WAN TEMPORARY HOUSING AREA.

ALL THESE CENTRES HAD BEEN ESTABLISHED WITH THE SUPPORT OF THE SOCIAL WELFARE DEPARTMENT AND THE LOTTERIES FUND.