As the Joint Ball will be held on the 18^th September (Saturday) in the Hong Kong Football Club, our regular dinner meeting is cancelled.  The fee for the “Hollywood Night” ball is $650 per person but a subsidy of $220 from the dinner meeting will be provided.  Also, please be reminded that the Joint DG Dinner Meeting will be held on 23^rd September (Thursday).

Thanks to our Sergeant-at-Arms, PP Jack, for collecting a total of $980 from fine and raffle tickets.

Our guest speaker, Mrs. Mei Ng, giving us a talk entitled “How green is our consumption”.  Mrs. Mei raised the issues of mooncake boxes, CDs and foams.  Concerning the giveaway items Mooncake boxes: 60% of 500 Hong Kong citizens in a survey said that they just throw the mooncake boxes away, while 29.5% of the respondents did make reuse of the boxes. Mrs.  Mei emphasized that both producers and consumers should bear the responsibility.  While for the CDs and the foams Mrs Mei suggested these materials can be converted into other plastic products (e.g. photo frames) to recycle the “waste” and as consumers we should try reduce the production of waste by adopting the concept of “green purchasing”.