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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1993
NEW PHONE NUMBERS FOR EAS. KOWLOON POLYCLINIC
* * *
THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH ANNOUNCED TODAY (FRIDAY) THAT TELEPHONE NUMBERS FOR THREE SERVICES AT THE EAST KOWLOON POLYCLINIC IN NGAU CHI WAN WOULD BE CHANGED FROM NEXT TUESDAY (MARCH 2).
THE NEW TELEPHONE NUMBERS ARE:
GENERAL OUT-PATIENT DEPARTMENT 320 4240
MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH CENTRE 321 7822
* TUBERCULOSIS AND CHEST CLINIC 352 0077
A SPOKESMAN FOR THE DEPARTMENT SAID THESE SERVICES COULD NO LONGER BE REACHED BY THE PRESENT TELEPHONE NUMBER, 327 0283, FROM THAT DATE.
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PUTTING HONG KONG ON THE MAP
PEOPLE LOST THEIR
IT IS HARD TO IMAGINE THAT IN THIS CENTURY LIVES JUST ON MAPPING SURVEYS OF THE NEW TERRITORIES.
BUT IN 1902 AND 1903 TWO BRITISH SURVEYORS LABOURERS PERISHED ON JUST SUCH A TASK.
AND FIVE INDIAN
ANOTHER FOUR OUT OF THE TOTAL OF SIX BRITISH SURVEYORS PROJECT DIED FROM DISEASE ON THEIR WAY HOME FROM HONG KONG.
THESE ARE JUST SOME OF THE FASCINATING THAT REALLY PUTS HONG KONG ON THE MAP.
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ON THE
FACTS
IN A NEW BOOK
MOST
"MAPPING HONG KONG" SUBTITLED A HISTORICAL ATLAS" IS THE AMBITIOUS AND PRESTIGIOUS PUBLICATION EVER ISSUED INFORMATION SERVICES.
BY THE GOVERNMENT
WRITTEN BY HAL EMPSON,
WITH THE BUILDINGS AND LANDS
FORMER SENIOR GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENT, IT TRACES
CARTOGRAPHER THE HISTORY OF
MAPPING IN HONG KONG FROM A 12TH CENTURY CHINESE WORK TO STATE-OF-THE- ART, COMPUTER-GENERATED AND SATELLITE MAPS.
THE 250-PAGE VOLUME CONTAINS NEARLY 170 FULL-PAGE, ILLUSTRATIONS OF RARE AND UNUSUAL MAPS
FULL-COLOUR AND CHARTS. KONG'S GROWTH FROM AN ALMOST
THEY SHOW HONG UNINHABITED ISLAND, EARLY NAVIGATION CHARTS, TO ONE OF THE WORLD'S MOST IMPORTANT
OFTEN IGNORED IN CENTRES.
TRADING
THE BOOK TOOK MORE THAN FOUR YEARS TO PRODUCE. TIME WAS TAKING UP BY
MUCH OF THIS MR EMPSON'S RESEARCH INTO RANGING FROM THOSE IN THE BRITISH LIBRARY IN LONDON TO CHARTS HELD
MAP COLLECTIONS, PRIVATE COLLECTORS AND PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE TERRITORY TAKEN
BY BY NASA.
FROM SPACE
/THE BOOK
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