District Headquarters, New Territories. Chartered Bank Building,
Fire Service Workshops and Stores
Rank and File Training School
Officers Training School
Tsuen Wan.
Ex Naval Stores, Hong Kong.
Chatham Road Camp, Kowloon.
Ex Naval Nissen Huts, Harcourt Road, Hong Kong.
43. In view of the need to overcome the effect of traffic density on time response to calls in the Central District of Victoria and to provide protection for the area that will be affected by the Central Area Re-development Plan, planning approval was given during the year for the provision of two smaller stations in place of the unsuitable Fire Brigade Building, taking at the same time the opportunity of providing a permanent home for Colony Fire Service Headquarters in one of these planned stations.
FIRE SERVICE GENERAL ORDERS AND
COMMUNICATIONS TO PERSONNEL
44. The many thousands of Orders, Circulars, Notices, Memoranda and Directives issued by three Commanding Officers during the past 30 years have been revoked and destroyed.
45. In their place 4 volumes out of a planned 6, designated 'Hong Kong Manuals of Firemanship' have been issued in English and are now in the process of being translated into Chinese. It has been an enormous but very necessary task, providing the essential 'communica- tions' between 'command' and 'rank and file'.
TRAINING
46. Standards of technical knowledge in Fire Engineering generally rise in proportion to developments in industry. During the past decade, revolutionary changes have taken place in the type and variety of raw materials used in production, creating new problems for the Fire Service.
47. To the Fire Engineer, the substances involved in fires are no longer limited to the by-products of timber, coal and iron upon which industry has relied since the beginning of the industrial era. Man-made fibres, alloys, plastics and new chemical compounds, coupled with the increasing use of the by-products of our nuclear age have extended
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