TRAINING (EXTERNAL)
39. Our most important contribution to public safety in 1964/65 was series of Special Fire Protection and Prevention Courses conducted for several hundred employees of industrial undertakings. These courses were sponsored by the Federation of Hong Kong Industries and were supplemented by the publication of a 'Fire Protection in Factories' handbook prepared by the Fire Prevention Bureau.
40. Courses of instruction in Fire Prevention generally and Fire. Service organization in particular, were given to the Faculty of Architec- ture of the Hong Kong University; the Senior Staff Courses and Inspectors' Advance Courses of the Police Force; hotel staff, Govern- ment servants, Kaifongs, Lion Clubs, Boy Scouts, Girl Guides and the occupants of numerous institutions.
41. Talks by Fire Officers on street corners using mobile public address systems were numerous and as far as one can judge (namely no subsequent record of fires in the districts concerned) were effective.
EXAMINATIONS GENERALLY
INSTITUTION OF FIRE ENGINEERS EXAMINATION
42. 49 officers sat for the annual examination at the Hong Kong Centre of the Institution of Fire Engineers and the results (3 additional Associates and 8 Graduates) were most encouraging.
43. Membership of the Hong Kong Branch of the Institution of Fire Engineers now stands at:
5 Members
17 Associate Members
29 Graduate Members
1 Licentiate Member
35 Students
44. The Branch gave its first annual dinner at the Mandarin Hotel to which the Chairmen and members of other Engineering and Architec- tural Institutions were invited. Functions of this nature make a positive contribution to the orderly development of the Colony, providing as they do timely opportunities for frank discussion on what is best in the general interests of the public.
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