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The field study centre is to provide a venue for Secondary 6 and 7 full time students to carry out residential ecology or geography studies.

In the 1995-96 school year, the centre has organised 11 Biology and 11 Geography weekly residential field studies courses.

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Office hours for collection of BN(O) passports extended

A spokesman for the Immigration Department annouced today (Thursday) that the extended working hours to 3 pm on Saturdays in some of the offices to facilitate applicants in collecting their BN(O) passports had been further extended for another three months.

The arrangement will be reviewed by the end of February 1996.

The Offices with extended working hours are:

* Travel Document (passport) Section at the Immigration Headquarters in Wan

Chai

* Immigration - East Kowloon Office

Immigration - West Kowloon Office

* Immigration - Sha Tin Office

* Immigration - Tai Po Office

* Immigration - Fanling Office

* Immigration - Tsuen Wan Office

* Immigration - Tuen Mun Office

Immigration - Yuen Long Office

* Hong Kong Island Re-entry Permit and Passport Issuing Office

Applicants who have been notified to collect their BN(O) passports are reminded that for their convenience, they should pick up the documents at the specified office within two months from the date when the passport is ready for collection.