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SUNDAY, JUNE 9, 1991

PRESENTED

A

CERTIFICATE

DURING THE CEREMONY, MR JAMES SO MERIT TO A MANAGER OF TANG SHUNG TAK TONG, MR TANG CHUN-HUNG, CLAN'S CO-OPERATION.

THE 121-YEAR-OLD STUDY HALL WAS BUILT IN THE BY DESCENDANTS OF THE TANG CLAN TO COMMEMORATE THEIR ANCESTOR, MR TANG KUN-TING (1815-1838).

OF

FOR THE

MID-19TH CENTURY 21ST GENERATION

BOTH ANCESTRAL CLASSICS, WITH SERVICE CIVIL

то ADMINISTRATION,

THE STUDY HALL HAD BEEN USED AS FACILITIES FOR AND WORSHIP AND EDUCATION. CHILDREN WERE TAUGHT ARTS

IMPERIAL THE PASS THEM TO THE AIM OF HELPING

QING EXAMINATIONS AND TO BECOME OFFICIALS IN THE FURTHER ENHANCE THE CLAN'S POWER AND POSITION.

IN

FROM

YEAR

THE TO

BY THE 1970'S, THE STUDY HALL SHOWED SIGNS OF DILAPIDATION.

ON THE GROUNDS 1981, THE AAB RECOMMENDED TO PRESERVE THE STUDY HALL

A

DONATION GENEROUS OF ITS HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE. WITH RHKJC, A RESTORATION PROGRAMME WAS CARRIED BRING THE STUDY HALL BACK TO ITS FORMER SPLENDOUR.

OUT EARLY LAST

UNDER THE RECREATION THE ARCHITECTURAL

WAS EXECUTED WORK RESTORATION MILLION THE $2.3 SUPERVISION OF THE ANTIQUITIES AND MONUMENTS OFFICE OF THE AND CULTURE BRANCH AND THE ANTIQUITIES SECTION OF SERVICES DEPARTMENT.

ORDINARY AIR LETTER MAIL SERVICE TO KUWAIT RESUMES

*

ORDINARY AIR LETTER

SUSPENDED ON

17 THL JANUARY GENERAL, MR DOMINIC S.W. WONG

THE

SERVICE TO KUWAIT, WHICH WAS

HAS RESUMED, YEAR, ANNOUNCED TODAY (SUNDAY).

POSTMASTER

SURFACE MAIL, REGISTERED

AND POSTFAX REMAIN

SUSPENDED,

HE

OTHER SERVICES TO KUWAIT, INCLUDING MAIL, PARCEL, SPEEDPOST, EXPRESS ADDED.

1,317 TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS REPORTED IN MAY

* *

WERE REPORTED IN 1,317 TRAFFIC A TOTAL OF 1,742 CASUALTIES ACCIDENTS WHICH OCCURRED THROUGHOUT THE TERRITORY LAST MONTH.

(SATURDAY) THAT 335 OF THESE A POLICE SPOKESMAN SAID TODAY

THE ACCIDENTS OCCURRED ON HONG KONG ISLAND, 687 IN KOWLOON AND 295 IN NEW TERRITORIES.

SHOWED THAT 33 PEOPLE WERE SLIGHTLY INJURED

THE PROVISIONAL FIGURES FOR MAY KILLED, 333 PEOPLE WERE SERIOUSLY INJURED AND 1,376 IN THESE ACCIDENTS.

THESE FIGURES REPRESENTED A 6.3 PER CENT AND

NUMBER OF IN THE

ACCIDENTS INCREASE RESPECTIVELY

A 4.4 PER CENT AND CASUALTIES

RECORDED OVER THE SAME PERIOD LAST YEAR.

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