Source:
https://scmp.com/article/588328/virginia-maher-1945-2007

Virginia Maher 1945-2007

Every Tuesday for the past three years, Virginia Maher compiled the Slice of Life column in this space, recounting stories published in the South China Morning Post in years gone by. For this week's column, the veteran journalist had already picked out the year on which she had wanted to concentrate - 1968 - but she was never to finish it. She died in hospital on Easter Sunday.

Whether sending a reporter on an assignment or convincing friends to visit sick children in a New Territories hospital, Virginia Maher's oft-heard phrase was 'Off you go'.