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BLANKETS FOR STREET SLEEPERS

SATURDAY, MARCH 7, 1992

WELFARE

DEPARTMENT STAFF

A TOTAL OF 501 BLANKETS AND SLEEPING BAGS WERE STREET SLEEPERS BY SOCIAL TERRITORY LAST (FRIDAY) NIGHT.

THE BLANKETS

AND

SLEEPING

BAGS WERE

THROUGHOUT

DISTRIBUTED ΤΟ THE

GIVEN TO 174

STREET

SLEEPERS ON HONG KONG ISLAND, 29 IN EAST KOWLOON, 221 IN WEST KOWLOON, 23 IN NEW TERRITORIES EAST AND SEVEN IN THE NEW TERRITORIES WEST.

A SOCIAL WELFARE DEPARTMENT

SPOKESMAN SAID TODAY (SATURDAY) SUCH EXERCISE MOUNTED TO

THE DISTRIBUTION LAST NIGHT WAS THE THIRD HELP THE NEEDY IN THE STREETS THIS WINTER.

"MORE THAN 610 BLANKETS AND SLEEPING BAGS HAD BEEN IN THE PREVIOUS TWO EXERCISES," THE SPOKESMAN ADDED.

DISTRIBUTED

HONG KONG GOVERNMENT EXCHANGE FUND

MONEY MARKET OPERATIONS

* * * * * *

DATE

$ MILLION

CLOSING BALANCE IN THE ACCOUNT ON

6.3.92

600

EFFECT OF FORWARDS TO BE SETTLED ON

7.3.92

NEUTRAL

EFFECT OF OPERATIONS THIS MORNING

NEUTRAL