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ADDRESS BY THE ACTING GOVERNOR. SIR JACK CATER, K.3.E., J.P.. AT THE CIVIL AID SERVICES COMBINED OFFICERS
AND MEMBERS DINNER ON JUNE 15, 1979
It is a very great pleasure for me to be here this evening,
to enjoy your hospitality, and especially to enjoy your company.
For many years I have admired the work, the enthusiasm of the
C.A.S.: I have noted with pride the quiet, unassuming, but very
efficient manner in which you have served the community, in so many
varied and various ways. And so I am grateful for this opportunity to
express the appreciation of both the people of Hong Kong, and of myself,
not only for your outstanding service of the past, but, of more immediate
importance, of the present.
I refer, of course, to the work you are performing in helping
to manage four Vietnamese refugee camps, in helping to feed the refugees
on the "Sky luck" and the many refugees on small craft in Discovery Bay.
This in addition to your other "normal" duties.
I was, for example, especially impressed to hear of the devotion
to duty the other day of your Mountain Rescue Unit. After a gruelling
10 hours supplying food to some 9,000 refugees, in 93 small craft out at sea, they returned at 5.30 a.m., repeat 5.30 a.m., to face an immediate
call out for an arduous mountain rescue on the cliff face of Lion Rock.
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Issued by Government Information Services, Beaconsfield House. Hong Kong. Tel: 5-233191