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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1987

THE JOINT EFFORTS OF

REHABILITATION AIDS, BE THEY

THE VOLUNTEERS AND THE USERS OF THE THE DISABLED THEMSELVES, THERAPISTS, BETTER DESIGNS, TEACHERS, OR SOCIAL WORKERS HAD RESULTED NOT ONLY IN

PROMOTED MORE IMPORTANTLY

BETTER UNDERSTANDING BUT

HAD DISABLED AND THEIR NEEDS, SHE SAID.

OF

REFERRING TO REHABILITATION ENGINEERING SERVICES IN HONG SHE COMMENDED THE ASSOCIATION FOR ITS PIONEERING AND PROVISION OF CLIENT-ORIENTED AND LOCALLY

AID

AND

STIMULATING

SERVICES,

IN REHABILITATION ENGINEERING.

SHE

SAID

THE

KONG,

IN THE DEVELOPMENT RELEVANT REHABILITATION THE COMMUNITY'S AWARENESS

OF

A OF

REHABILITATION THIS

MORE YEAR, CHANCE TO LEAD A THE CENTRE

WITH THAT

THE SETTING UP THE HONG ENGINEERING CENTRE IN

KONG POLYTECHNIC DISABLED PERSONS WOULD BENEFIT AND WOULD HAVE THE HAPPY AND USEFUL LIFE THROUGH ACTIVE CO-OPERATION BETWEEN AND THE ASSOCIATION.

THEIR MRS WONG ALSO PAID TRIBUTE TO THE KESWICK FOUNDATION FOR

SERVICES, ADDING THAT WITH COMMITMENT TO IMPROVING, REHABILITATION

OF INSUFFICIENT TO PROJECTS WOULD

THE

PROBLEM

OF THE THE ESTABLISHMENT

WORKSHOP, FACILITIES WHICH RESULTED IN TREMENDOUS HINDRANCE BE SOLVED.

PUBLIC SUPPORT NEEDED IN WAR AGAINST LITTERING

FISHERIES, DR LAWRENCE

LEE, THE DIRECTOR OF AGRICULTURE AND

LITTER TODAY (SATURDAY) URGED THE PUBLIC TO HELP SOLVE THE DISTURBING

PARKS BY KEEPING THEM PROBLEM PREVAILING IN HONG KONG'S 21 COUNTRY CLEAN AND TIDY.

DR

LEE SAID

"THE

LITTER

PROBLEM IS AN

IMMENSE

ONE

CONSIDERING THE INCREASING NUMBER OF PARK VISITORS.

EXAGGERATING

ITS SERIOUSNESS BUT "I DO NOT WANT TO BE SEEN THE LITTER STATISTICS HAS GIVEN RISE TO A JUSTIFIED CAUSE FOR CONCERN. WHICH LAST YEAR, SOME 4,000 TONNES OF LITTER WERE COLLECTED, A LOT OF WERE DISCARDED INDISCRIMINATINGLY ON THE GROUND BY VISITORS.

PER CUBIC

METRE,

400,000

CUBIC METRES "AT 10 KILOGRAMMES REPRESENT A PILE OF LITTER 50 METRES BY 50 METRES AND 160 METRES HIGH, MORE THAN ENOUGH TO FILL THE EXCHANGE SQUARE.

"

"IT IS INDEED A MAMMOTH PROBLEM WHICH CANNOT BE SOLVED PUBLIC CO-OPERATION.

WITHOUT

//DR LEE