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FRIDAY, JANUARY 3, 1975.
MAIL SERVICES TO GIBRALTAR
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THE POST OFFICE ANNOUNCES THAT DUE TO INDUSTRIAL ACTION WHICH IS DISRUPTING POSTAL SERVICES, NO FURTHER SURFACE PARCEL DESPATCHES WILL BE MADE TO GIBRALTAR UNTIL NORMAL SERVICES ARE RESUMED.
AIR MAILS, AIR PARCELS AND OTHER CLASSES OF SURFACE MAILS WILL CONTINUE TO BE FORWARDED, BUT DELAYS ARE INEVITABLE.
THE PUBLIC ARE ADVISED TO RESTRICT THE POSTING OF ALL CLASSES OF MAIL TO GIBRALTAR UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE.
DIRECTOR OF FIRE SERVICES
PRESENTS LONG SERVICE MEDALS AND CLASPS
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A TOTAL OF 42 SERVING AND RETIRED MEMBERS OF THE FIRE SERVICES DEPARTMENT, WITH ALMOST 1,000 YEARS OF SERVICE BETWEEN THEM, WERE TODAY(FRIDAY) PRESENTED WITH COLONIAL FIRE BRIGADES LONG SERVICE MEDALS AND CLASPS BY THE DIRECTOR OF FIRE SERVICES, MR. HARRY WOOD, AT A CEREMONY HELD AT THE TSIM SHA TSUI FIRE STATION.
SEVENTEEN OF THE RECIPIENTS WERE AWARDED LONG SERVICE MEDALS RECOGNISING 18 YEARS OF SERVICE, WHILE THE REMAINING 25 WERE AWARDED FIRST CLASPS TO THEIR LONG SERVICE MEDALS IN RECOGNITION OF 25 YEARS' SERVICE.
THE RECIPIENTS CONSISTED OF A CHIEF FIRE OFFICER, TWO ASSISTANT DIVISIONAL OFFICERS, ONE STATION OFFICER, SEVEN PRINCIPAL FIREMEN, 22 SENIOR FIREMEN, TWO SENIOR AMBULANCEMEN, SIX FIREMEN AND ONE AMBULANCEMAN.
47 MORE MEMBERS OF THE SERVICE WILL BE PRESENTED WITH LONG SERVICE AWARDS AT A CEREMONY TO BE HELD AT CENTRAL FIRE STATION ON JANUARY 10.
NOTE TO EDITORS A PICTURE SHOWING THE CHIEF FIRE OFFICER, NEW TERRITORIES, MR FRED JACKSON RECEIVING A FIRST CLASP TO HIS COLONIAL FIRE BRIGADES LONG SERVICE MEDAL FROM THE DIRECTOR OF THE FIRE SERVICES, MR. HARRY WOOD, WILL BE BOXED THIS EVENING.
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