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Saturday, November 24, 1973
WATCHMAN TO RECEIVE $6,500 FOR BRAVERY
Note to Editors:
The Director of Social Welfare, Mr. K.W.J. Topley, will present a cheque for $6,500 to Mr. Chan
Leung at 12 noon on Tuesday (November 27). The
presentation ceremony will be held in the conference room of the Social Welfare Department at Lee Gardens, 4th floor, Hysan Avenue, Hong Kong.
This sum was approved by the Legislative Council as an award to Mr. Chan as compensation for injuries he sustained in preventing a crime.
Mr. Chan is employed as a watchman by fruit stall
owners in Shek Lung Street, Yau Ma Tei.
On the evening of November 12 this year, while
on patrol he prevented a man from robbing four woman hawkers and received a chopper wound on his left shoulder for which he had to spend a week in hospital.
You are cordially invited to cover the presentation
ceremony.
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