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SATURDAY, APRIL 20, 1991

ENTRY TO SAI KUNG DRAGON BOAT RACES INVITED

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INTERESTED PARTIES ARE INVITED ΤΟ ENTER THE DRAGON BOAT RACES WHICH WILL BE HELD ON JUNE 16 ALONG OF SAI KUNG TOWN.

1991 SAI KUNG THE WATERFRONT

ORGANISED BY THE SAI KUNG DRAGON BOAT RACING ASSOCIATION AND THE DISTRICT OFFICE, THE RACES WILL BE DIVIDED INTO MEN'S OPEN, MEN'S MINI-DRAGON, LADIES' PHOENIX, AND COMMERCIAL FIRMS SECTIONS..

THE WINNERS WILL BE AWARDED TROPHIES AND PENNANTS. THE CHAMPION OF THE MEN'S OPEN SECTION WILL BE INVITED ΤΟ TAKE PART IN THE INTERNATIONAL DRAGON BOAT INVITATION RACES ORGANISED BY THE HONG KONG TOURIST ASSOCIATION.

ENTRY FORMS ARE NOW AVAILABLE AT THE SAI KUNG DISTRICT COMMUNITY CENTRE IN SHA HA AND AT THE SAI KUNG DISTRICT OFFICE'S SUB-OFFICE ON THE GROUND FLOOR OF PO NING HOUSE, PO LAM ESTATE IN TSEUNG KWAN 0.

DEADLINE

FOR ENTRY 15 MAY 1.

ENQUIRIES CAN BE MADE

ON

TEL. 792 1762.

POLICE REMINDER ON SERIOUSNESS OF LETTING OBJECTS FALL FROM HEIGHT

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POLICE ARRESTED A TOTAL OF 246 PERSONS OUT OF 462 REPORTS OF OBJECT FELL FROM HEIGHT THROUGHOUT THE TERRITORY LAST YEAR.

THESE ARRESTED PERSONS,

OF WHOM HAD BEEN CHARGED AND CONVICTED OF "ALLOWING OBJECTS TO FALL FROM HEIGHT", HAD CAUSED INJURIES TO 230 PEDESTRIANS,

THE NUMBER OF CASES OF OBJECTS FALLING FROM HEIGHT REPORTED IN THE FIRST QUARTER OF THIS YEAR WAS 57, WITH SOME 32 PEOPLE INJURED, SOME OF THEM SERIOUSLY,

A POLICE SPOKESMAN SAID TODAY (SATURDAY) THAT ANY PERSON CONVICTED OF THE OFFENCE COULD FACE A PENALTY OF UP TO $50,000 IN FINE AND ONE YEAR'S IMPRISONMENT.

THE SPOKESMAN SAID MANY "OBJECT FELL FROM HEIGHT" INCIDENTS WERE A RESULT OF NEGLIGENCE ON THE PART OF THE OFFENDERS AND COULD HAVE BEEN AVOIDED IF THOSE INVOLVED HAD EXERCISED A LITTLE CAUTION AND CONSIDERATION.

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