TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1976
CAS PRAISED FOR FIRE PREVENTION EFFORTS
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THE CIVIL AID SERVICES WERE OUT IN FORCE LAST WEEKEND SUPPORTING THE AGRICULTURE AND FISHERIES DEPARTMENT IN THEIR EFFORTS TO PRESERVE OUR COUNTRYSIDE FROM HILL-FIRES,
THE DEPARTMENT'S SPOKESMAN PAID TRIBUTE TO THE COMMENDABLE WORK OF THE SERVICES' VOLUNTEER FIRE-FIGHTERS AND SAID THE COMMUNITY VAS GRATEFUL TO THEM.
A KUNDRED REGULAR MEMBERS AND 50 CADETS GAVE UP THEIR HOLIDAYS FOR THIS PRAISE-WORTHY PUBLIC SERVICE.
THEY SET OUT EARLY ON SATURDAY AFTERNOON AND AGAIN ON SUNDAY MORNING AND WERE POSTED TO PLANTATION AREAS IN THE NEW TERRITORIES WHICH ARE POPULAR PICNIC- AND BARBECUE SPOTS,
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TRACKING OVER LARGE STRETCHES OF ROVAN COUNTRYSIDE. THEY HELPED THE DEPARTMENT'S FIRE-FIGHTING PATROLS LOOKING OUT FOR GRASS FIBES AND BEATING THEN OUT.
ALTOGETHER THERE WERE NINE FIRES DURING THE VEEKEM TWO ON SATURDAY AND SEVEN ON SUNDAY. THE CAS WERE ACTIVELY
INVOLVED IN STAMPING OUT THREE - AT BRIDE'S POOL, TAI LAN CHUNG AND SHING MUN, THESES FIRES WERE CONFINED IN TIME AND DID NOT LEAD TO DISASTERS.
THE SPOKESMAN CALLED ON MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC TO CONTINUE TO PAY NEED TO THE PROPER DISPOSAL OF MATCHES AND CIGARETTE ENDS AND THE STARTING OF BARBECUŁ FIRES IN THE COUNTRY AREAS.
NEW PEDESTRIAN PRECINCT ****
A STREET IN ME! FOD SUN CHUEN WILL BECOME A PEDESTRIAN PRECINCT ON THURSDAY (FEBRUARY 12).
THE STREET, MOUNT STERLING MALL, WILL BE CLOSED TO VEMICULAR TRAFFIC FROM 10 A.N. ON THURSDAY WHEN PEDESTRIANS WILL HAVE FULL USE OF THE MALL.
TRAFFIC SIGNS WILL BE PUT UP AT EACH END OF THE MALL.
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