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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1974
P.V.D. ANNUAL SWIMMING GALA
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THE PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT WILL BE HOLDING THEIR SIXTH ANNUAL SWIMMING GALA ON SUNDAY (SEPTEMBER 15) AT THE MORRISON HILL, SVIMMING POOL.
MORE THAN 150 SWIMMERS WILL COMPETE IN 23 EVENTS WHICH WILL BE FOLLOWED BY A LIFE SAVING DEMONSTRATION BY THE HONG KONG LIFE GUARD CLUB AND A DEPARTMENTAL INVITATION RELAY.
THE GALA WILL BE OPENED BY THE ACTING DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS, MR. WILLIAM BELL AT 2 P.M. MRS. BELL WILL HELP PRESENT PRIZES AND SOUVENIR PENNANTS TO THE WINNERS.
THERE WILL ALSO BE A LUCKY DRAW BY MISS JUDY DIRKIN, THE FIRST RUNNER-UP IN THE HISS HONG KONG CONTEST.
NOTE TO EDITORS: YOU ARE CORDIALLY INVITED TO SEND A REPRESENTATIVE
TO COVER THE EVENT.
PREVENTIVE SERVICE SEIZE DRUGS
WORTH $77.000
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ANTI-NARCOTIC OPERATIONS BY THE PREVENTIVE SERVICE LAST MONTH RESULTED IN DRUGS VALUED AT $77,134 BEING SEIZED.
A TOTAL OF 117 SEIZURES WERE MADE OF WHICH 101 WERE ON LAND, FIVE ON THE OUTER ISLANDS, 10 ON OCEAN-GOING VESSELS AND ONE ON THE WATERFRONT. PROSECUTIONS UNDER THE DANGEROUS DRUGS ORDINANCE TOTALLED 437.
ELEVEN SEARCH WARRANTS WERE EXECUTED UNDER THE COPYWRIGHT ORDINANCE RESULTING IN THE SEIZURE OF 14,373 PIRATED MUSIC CASSETTE TYPES, 706 GRAMOPHONE RECORDS AND 99 CARTRIDGES.
TWO STILLS USED FOR THE ILLICIT MANUFACTURE OF LIQUOR WERE SEIZED AND 868 GALLONS OF FERMENTING LIQUOR WERE DESTROYED ON SITE.
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