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FRIDAY, MARCH 18, 1988

PLB'S AND PRIVATE CARS WILL NOT BE ALLOWED TO SET DOWN OR PICK UP PASSENGERS WITHIN ONE KILOMETRE ON TAI WO SERVICE ROAD (WEST) ON EITHER SIDE OF WO HOP SHEK ROAD; AND ALSO WITHIN 300 METRES ON TAI WO BERVICE ROAD (WEST) ON EITHER SIDE OF KIU TAU ROAD.

AS THERE WILL BE NO PARKING FACILITIES IN WO HOP SHEK AND PARKING SPACES IN SHEUNG SHUI, FANLING AND TSUEN WAN CEMETERY ARE EXTREMELY LIMITED, MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC ARE URGED TO USK PUBLIC TRANSPORT TO GO TO THE CEMETERIES.

GRAVE-SWEEPERS ARE ADVISED TO FOLLOW THE PEDESTRIAN ROUTE FROM THE SOUTH SIDE OF FANLING KCR STATION AND TO WALK ALONG ROAD D6.

SERVICES FOR ELDERLY IN NORTH DISTRICT

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APPROPRIATE ARRANGEMENTS HAVE BEEN MADE BY THE GOVERNMENT то MEET THE DEMAND FOR ELDERLY SERVICES IN THE NORTH DISTRICT, THE DISTRICT OFFICER, MR MATTHEW CHEUNG, SAID THIS (FRIDAY) AFTERNOON.

HE WAS SPEAKING AT A FEAST FOR THE ELDERLY ORGANISED BY THE DISTRICT'S CO-ORDINATING COMMITTEE FOR ELDERLY ACTIVITIES.

MR CHEUNG NOTED THAT OF THE 150,000 POPULATION IN THE DISTRICT, ABOUT 17,000 WERE OVER 60 YEARS OLD, REPRESENTING MORE THAN 10 PER CENT OF THE TOTAL POPULATION THERE.

OUTLINING THE SERVICES FOR THE ELDERLY, HE SAID THE FUNG YING SIN KOON LIMITED SOCIAL CENTRE FOR THE ELDERLY IN CHEUNG WAH ESTATE, FANLING, HAD COMMENCED OPERATION IN JANUARY.

ANOTHER SOCIAL CENTRE FOR THE ELDERLY WOULD BE SET UP IN TIN

PING ESTATE, SHEUNG SHUI, IN THE NEXT TWO YEARS.

BY 1990, A HOSTEL FOR THE ELDERLY AND A HOME/CARE AND ATTENTION UNIT WOULD BE IN OPERATION IN TIN PING ESTATE AND IN FANLING'S WAH MING ESTATE RESPECTIVELY, HE ADDED.

FANLING

TO MEET THE DEMAND FROM THE GROWING POPULATION IN SOUTH, A MULTI-SERVICES CENTRE AND A DAY CARE CENTRE FOR THE ELDERLY WILL BE SET UP IN 1990-91.

MR CHEUNG PRAISED THE EFFORTS OF THE NORTH CO-ORDINATING COMMITTEE FOR ELDERLY ACTIVITIES, LED BY CHIN-WAN, IN ORGANISING A WIDE RANGE OF ACTIVITIES TO PROMOTE FOR THE ELDERLY.

DISTRICT MR TSUI RESPECT

/THE ACTIVITIES