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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27, 1988

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REPRESENTATIVES FROM VARIOUS DISCIPLINES WILL BE PRESENT ANSWER QUESTIONS RELATING TO MENTAL HEALTH, AND PAMPIILETS WILL BE. DISTRIBUTED.

OFFICIATING AT THE OPENING CEREMONY AT 10. 30 AM WILL BE THE

COMMISSIONER FOR REHABILITATION, MR FRANCIS OFFICER, MR CHRISTOPHER WAN, AND REGIONAL MR LOK MAN-PAN.

HO, KWUN TONG DISTRICT SOCIAL WELFARE OFFICER,

NOTE TO EDITORS:

YOU ARE INVITED TO COVER THE OPENING CEREMONY OF THE MENTAL HEALTH PROMOTION PROGRAMME IN KWUN TONG WHICH IS JOINTLY ORGANISED BY THE SOCIAL WELFARE DEPARTMENT'S KWUN TONG DISTRICT OFFICE AND THE KWUN TONG COMMUNITY HEALTH PROJECT OF THE UNITED CHRISTIAN MEDICAL SERVICE9.

IT WILL BE HELD AT THE COMMUNITY HALL OF

THE LOK WAH ESTATE COMMUNITY CENTRE, LOK WAH ESTATE, CHUNG WAH ROAD, NGAU TAU кок, AT 10.30 AM ON SATURDAY (APRIL 30).

SCHOLARSHIP TO HELP PROBATIONER

A PROBATIONER UNDER THE SUPERVISION OF THE SOCIAL WELFARE DEPARTMENT WAS TODAY (WEDNESDAY) AWARDED A SCHOLARSHIP BY THE ZONTA CLUB.

THE $7,700 SCHOLARSHIP WILL ENABLE THIS 18-YEAR-OLD GIRL ΤΟ CONCENTRATE ON HER FORM FIVE STUDIES WITHOUT HAVING TO TAKE UP PART-TIME JOB TO PAY FOR HER SCHOOLING AS IS THE CASE NOW.

THE GIRL WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR 12 MONTHS AFTER BEING CONVICTED FOR SHOPTHEFT LAST YEAR. SHE HAS SINCE MADE SIGNIFICANT PROGRESS IN HER REHABILITATION PROGRAMME UNDER THE SUPERVISION OF HER PROBATION OFFICER AND WORKED VERY HARD AT HER STUDIES.

THE SCHOLARSHIP WAS RECEIVED ON HER BEHALF BY THE ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF SOCIAL WELFARE (YOUTH AND REHABILITATION), MR KWOK KA-CHI, IN HIS CAPACITY AS THE PRINCIPAL PROBATION OFFICER.

MR KWOK SAID HE WAS HEARTENED BY THE RECOGNITION OF AND SUPPORT FOR THE PROBATION SERVICE AS REFLECTED BY THIS DONATION OF THE ZONTA CLUB.

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