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No mail delivery for coming public holiday

There would be no mail delivery during the forthcoming public holiday on Monday (October 21) the day following Chung Yeung Festival, the Postmaster General, Mr Robert Footman, announced today (Tuesday).

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All post offices would also be closed. However, one mail collection would be arranged for all street posting boxes except those located on outlying islands and in remote areas. The time of collection is shown on the time-plate of each posting box.

"This arrangement will serve to advance the processing of letters posted on that day and hence improve our quality of letter service to the public," said Mr Footman.

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Eight clinics open on Chung Yeung Festival

Eight holiday clinics will be open from 9 am to 1 pm on Sunday (October 20), which is the Chung Yeung Festival, the Department of Health announced today (Tuesday).

However, all general out-patient clinics will be closed on the following day, a public holiday after the festival.

The clinics which will be open on Sunday are the Violet Peel Health Centre and Shau Kei Wan Jockey Club Clinic on Hong Kong Island; the Kwun Tong Jockey Club Health Centre, Robert Black Health Centre and Yau Ma Tei Jockey Club Clinic in Kowloon; the Lady Trench Polyclinic, Shek Wu Hui Jockey Club Clinic and Yuen Long Jockey Club Health Centre in the New Territories.

Information on which private clinics and out-patient departments of private hospitals are open on the holiday can be obtain by calling the Hong Kong Medical Association hotline 90000-22-2322.

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