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The scheme is controlled by a two-tier administrative structure consisting of the central RPIS Minor Works Steering Committee and the RPIS Minor Works District working groups.

The Steering Committee, chaired by the Director of Home Affairs, comprises Chairmen of NT district boards, three representatives from Heung Yee Kuk and representatives of core works departments involved in minor works.

Its main task is to advise on policy issues related to RPIS implementation, endorse district programmes, monitor progress and arbitrate if priorities clash.

The district working groups in turn look after and monitor the planning and implementation of district RPIS projects.

There are altogether nine New Territories District working groups, each chaired by the District Officer, comprising representatives from district boards, rural committees and departmental representatives.

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School's out for ever as St George's closes

The following is issued on behalf of the Joint Service Public Relations Staff:

The British Services' school, St George's, at Kowloon Tong, will closed its classroom doors for the last time after pupils and teachers packed away their textbooks and dust off the blackboards on Friday (July 12), bringing an end to 40 years teaching to three generations of service children in Hong Kong.

With the return of most of the garrison's school children back to the UK this summer, St George's will finally close after providing education for over 17,000 pupils since it first opened its doors in 1955.

To mark the occasion, 57 children, aged between 11 and 15, will be ceremonially marched out of the school doors by the visiting Loretto Pipes and Drums from Musselburgh in Scotland, after which the headmaster, Mr Martin Cater, will lower the Union Flag.

He will be assisted in this task by pupils Leann Hughes, Hannah Ley, Thomas Sutherland, Yuki Shirahama and Thomas Jackman.