Jaycees Give New Clinic To Kowloon

Press, Volume CV, Issue 30979, 8 February 1966, Page 9

Jaycees Give New Clinic To Kowloon

(N.S.P.A. Reuter —Copyright) HONG KONG, February 6. New quarters built with New Zealand funds for the medical centre of “Project Concern” in Kowloon walled city have been officially opened. The money was a gift from the Wellington Junior Chamber.

The clinic has been run in the notorious walled city since 1982.

While the Hong Kong Government claims technical authority over the cluster of tumbledown stone buildings near Kai Tak Airport, it leaves the place pretty much alone. When the New Territories’ lease was signed late last century, the place was allowed to retain its own officials in the city, which was then a cluster of buildings in open land.

Although the colony’s Supreme Court ruled in 1958 that Hong Kong police juris-

diction extended to the walled city, it has remained a politically sensitive spot. Haven For Addicts

A haven for drug addicts, prostitutes and unregistered dentists, it has drawn protests from Peking in recent years whenever the Hong Kong Government has tried to redevelop parts of it. “Project Concern” also runs a floating clinic in one of the colony’s typhoon shelters. The Second Secretary of the New Zealand Commission in Hong Kong, Mr J. G. Carter, officially opened the new walled city premises in the presence of a number of Hong Kong Jaycees.