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Applications are invited from June 26 (Monday) for about 1,100 new standard niches in the Columbarium of Kwai Chung Crematorium of the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department.
They are the remaining stock of some 2,300 newly built niches in the Columbarium which were open for application by the public earlier this year.
The charges for each standard niche and memorial plaque are $3,000 and $295 respectively.
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Application forms are available at the FEHD's Cemeteries and Crematoria Offices on Hong Kong Island and in Kowloon. They can also be obtained through fax or downloaded from the department's website (www.fehd.gov.hk).
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Applicants can submit the completed application forms, together with the required documents, in person or through an authorised agent to the Cemeteries and Crematoria Office in Kowloon during office hours starting June 26.
All applications will be processed on a first-come-first-served basis and the applicants will be informed of an appointed date for completion of the application procedures with allocation of niches made. The daily quota for allocation is 30.
Addresses and contact numbers of the Cemeteries and Crematoria Offices are as follows:
Hong Kong Office
Address: 1J, Wong Nai Chung Road, Happy Valley.
Tel: 2570 4318
Fax: 2591 1879
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Kowloon Office
Address: Upper Ground Floor, 6 Cheong Hang Road, Hung Hom.
Tel: 2365 5321
Fax: 2176 4963
Ends/Wednesday, June 21, 2006
Issued at HKT 16:00
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