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30.

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The Committee runs the Walled City Kaifong School at 18 Tung

Tau Tsuen Road. It is the largest primary school in this

locality with an enrolment of 1,200 pupils the majority of whom

are not Walled City residents but are merely allocated' to this school by left-wing trade unions. Presently CHAN Hip-ping, Vice-chairman of the Executive Committee is concurrently

headmaster of this school.

The Organisation of the Committee

31.

The Kowloon Walled City Kaifong Welfare Promotion Committee has a

standing Executive Committee consisting of a Chairman, 2 Vice-

chairmen and a score of Committee members bearing a number of

offices.

The present Chairman is Mr. CHEUNG Yat-fan (-A) and the 2 Vice-chairmen are LEE Wai-kwan ( 李偉群 ) and

CHAN Hip-ping (

197 BF

). Mr. CHEUNG Yat-fan has been

Chairman since 1970 after the former chairman Mr. WONG Chung-ping

(

:

黃中平

) was ousted from power after factional strife

among the Committee members.

Personalities of the Kowloon Walled City Kaifong Welfare Promotion Committee

CHEUNG Yat-fan (GAL)

32.

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Mr. CHEUNG, now in his fifties, is a landowner. He is owner of

the building under construction at 78, Lung Chun Road.

Mr. CHEUNG formerly operated a school, but as a result of poor

enrolment the school was closed down. Mr. CHEUNG, having been

an Executive Committee Member since the formation of the Committ、:

in 1963, is now Chairman.

CHAN Hip-ping (4

33.

One of the two Vice-chairmen of the Executive Committee, Mr. CHAN, about 27 years of age, is concurrently headmaster of Kowloon Walled City Kaifong School established in 1968. He was a former student of the past chairman Mr. WONG Chung-ping and was practically not heard of before 1967. He appeared on the local scene after WONG was jailed in 1967 and has ever since

been on active member of the Committee.

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