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THURSDAY, MAY 30, 1991

AR STED BETWEEN MARCH 7 AND MAY 29, 388 PERSONS HAD BEEN POSSESSION OF DUTIABLE GOODS ON WHICH THE DUTY HAD NOT BEEN PAID.

FOR

OFFENCES WERE IDENTIFIED AT

DRIVERS RETURNING CLOTHING AND BAGGAGE, OR

THE SPOKESMAN SAID 269 OF THESE CUSTOMS CONTROL POINTS AND INVOLVED TRAVELLERS AND FROM CHINA CONCEALING CIGARETTES IN THEIR INSIDE THEIR VEHICLES.

CUSTOMS

OPERATIONS AT

VARIOUS

ON

THE OTHER CASES RESULTED FROM POINTS ON LAND, SUCH AS STORES, MOBILE HAWKERS AND RESTAURANTS, OR BOARD VESSELS.

A DUTY "A TOTAL OF 1.4 MILLION CIGARETTES WITH $1 MILLION WERE SEIZED DURING THE SAME PERIOD," HE SAID.

CIGARETTES

POTENTIAL OF

EXCESS IN

OF THE PENALTY WAS A

TRAVELLERS WHO FAIL TO DECLARE DUTY FREE CONCESSION WOULD BE PROSECUTED. THE MAXIMUM FINE OF $100,000 AND IMPRISONMENT FOR TWO YEARS.

WORKING PARTY ON KINDERGARTEN EDUCATION FORMED

* *

THE

QUALITY

SET PARTY HAS BEEN A WORKING

OF MEASURES IMPLEMENTATION OF A

OF KINDERGARTEN

UP

PACKAGE

TO ADVISE ON INTRODUCED

THE

IMPROVE EDUCATION, MR LI YUET-TING, SAID TODAY (THURSDAY).

EDUCATION,

LAST YEAR THE DIRECTOR

TO

OF

MEMBERSHIP OF THE

WHICH HAD

BREN

MEETING

WORKING REGULARLY,

PARTY

ON KINDERGARTEN COMPRISED A WIDE

EDUCATION, NON-OFFICIAL

REPRESENTATION, HE SAID.

CEREMONY OF THE 1991 MR LI WAS SPEAKING AT THE PRESENTATION

CENTRED ON PRE-SCHOOL. EDUCATION AND ZONTA ACHIEVEMENT AWARD WHICH

CHING ON PAID TRIBUTE TO MRS ANGELA LUK CHIU KWAN-HUNG AND MS SANSAN THEIR OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENTS IN THEIR WORK.

ON THE IMPROVEMENT

MEASURES, MR LI SAID THE TEACHER-PUPIL AND 1:30 FOR KINDERGARTEN RATIO OF 1:20 FOR NURSERY KINDERGARTEN CLASSES CAME INTO EFFECT LAST SEPTEMBER.

AND

FULL-DAY

TEACHERS

BEEN TAKEN ΤΟ ENCOURAGE то RECOMMENDED ACCORDING

MOTIVATED ΤΟ SFBK

AT THE SAME TIME, HE SAID STEPS HAD

ΤΟ OPERATORS

PAY KINDERGARTEN SALARY SCALES SO THAT UNTRAINED TEACHERS COULD BE TRAINING AND REMAIN IN THE PROFESSION.

"AS A

RESULT,

THE

ENROLMENT

KINDERGARTEN TEACHER TRAINING COURSE HAS

THE

FOR

TWO-YEAR

QUALIFIED THE INCREASED BY 18 PER CENT AND 12-WEEK

ASSISTANT QUALIFIED

SOME 60 PER

THE FOR APPLICATIONS NUMBER OF KINDERGARTEN TEACHER COURSES THIS YEAR HAS INCREASED BY CENT COMPARED WITH LAST YEAR,

HR ADDED THAT

HE SAID.

WAS IT

ALSO ENCOURAGING

то

THE

SEE THAT WASTAGE RATE OF KINDERGARTEN TEACHERS HAD BEEN CONSIDERABLY REDUCED.

+

/THE IMPROVEMENT