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Fallen trees disrupted traffic in Jaffe Road, Chai Wan Road, Eastern Hospital Road and Repulse Bay Road on Hong Kong Island, Other falls were reported in Prince Edward Road, Sha Tin and Tai Po.
The Home Affairs Department has opened 52 temporary shelters and admitted 119 people. The Social Welfare Department had served 139 hot meals by 6 pm.
End/Thursday, August 31, 1995
Over 440 applications to become OAT adjudicators received
A total of 442 applications to serve as adjudicators of the Obscene Articles Tribunal (OAT) have been received during the one-month open recruitment period which ended on Monday (August 28).
"Of the total, 116 applicants are female (26.2 per cent) and 326 are male (73.8 per cent). They come from a wide cross section of the community - from businessmen, architects, doctors, lawyers, teachers, surveyors, civil servants, social workers, students to housewives and retired persons," a spokesman for the Recreation and Culture Branch said today (Thursday).
An analysis shows that over 75 per cent of the applicants are aged between 20 and 40. About 55 per cent of the applicants have attained university level education, 40 per cent are secondary school graduates and 1.6 per cent have completed primary school education.
Applications received through the open recruitment exercise will be considered together with nominations made by the Home Affairs Department, the Social Welfare Department, the Education Department, the Urban Services Department and the Regional Services Department.
"We will make nominations to the Chief Justice in due course. Besides fulfilling the basic legal requirements, we will ensure that the final nominations represent an even balance in terms of gender, age, profession, and education," the spokesman added.
The purpose of the open recruitment exercise was to enlarge the panel of adjudicators to increase its representativeness and to increase the number of female adjudicators to achieve a better sex balance.
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