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Monday, January 7, 1974
WARNING AGAINST BOGUS LABOUR OFFICERS
The Assistant Commissioner of Labour, Mr. David Lin today warned
factory proprietors to be on their guard against bogus Labour Department
officials who solicit money for advertisements in departmental publications.
He emphasised that no Labour Department publications carried
advertisement and that no departmental staff was authorised to solicit
money for any purpose whatsoever, "However," he said, "despite my repeated
appeals there are still cases 11 which proprietors are deceived by such
impersonators."
Mr. Lin said he was very concerned about the considerable increase
in the number of such illegal practices recently. He urged proprietors
who were approached by persons purporting to be Labour Department staff to
immediately report the case to the Police or to the Senior Labour Officer
of the Labour Department at Tel. No. 3-688842.
"It is only with the co-operation of factory proprietors that
these illegal practices can be eliminated," he stressed. "Records show
that the police succeeded in some cases to arrest the impersonators because
of the proprietors' prompt action."
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