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WEDNESDAY, JULY 25, 1979
NEW RESTRICTIONS RELATING TO LICENSING OF
MAHJONG PARLOURS AND BALLROOMS
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THE COMMISSIONER FOR TELEVISION AND ENTERTAINMENT LICENSING, MR. N.J.V. WATT, ANNOUNCED TODAY (WEDNESDAY) THAT A NEW SET OF CONDITIONS RELATING TO THE LICENSING OF MAHJONG PARLOURS AND BALLROOMS WILL BE APPLIED WITH IMMEDIATE EFFECT.
UNDER THE NEW SET OF CONDITIONS, SUCH ESTABLISHMENTS WOULD NOT NORMALLY BE PERMITTED UNLESS THEY HAVE THEIR OWN ENTRANCES AND EXITS CLEARLY SEPARATED FROM ANY RESIDENTIAL ACCOMMODATION IN THE BUILDING.
+THE PURPOSE OF THESE NEW ARRANGEMENTS IS TO ENSURE THAT ANY DOMESTIC TENANTS IN MIXED/COMMERCIAL RESIDENTIAL PROPERTIES ARE NOT UNREASONABLY INCONVENIENCED BY THE EXISTENCE OF SUCH ESTABLISHMENTS, HE SAID.
23 AMBULANCE COMMAND STAFF LAUDED
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TWENTY-THREE OFFICERS AND MEN OF THE AMBULANCE COMMAND WHOSE COMBINED PERIOD OF SERVICE TOTALLED 500 YEARS WERE TODAY (WEDNESDAY) PRESENTED WITH COLONIAL LONG SERVICE MEDALS AND CLASPS.
AT A PRESENTATION CEREMONY IN THE MOUNT DAVIS AMBULANCE DEPOT, THE CHIEF AMBULANCE OFFICER, MR. H. KENYON, PRAISED THEM FOR THEIR YEARS OF SERVICE AND EFFICIENT RESPONSE TO COUNTLESS EMERGENCIES AT ALL TIMES OF NIGHT AND DAY AND IN ALL KINDS OF WEATHER.
+HONG KONG IS PROUD TO HAVE SUCH DEDICATED MEN IN THE PUBLIC SERVICE, MR. KENYON SAID.
TWO OFFICERS AND 13 AMBULANCEMEN RECEIVED THE COLONIAL LONG SERVICE MEDALS WHILE SEVEN OTHERS, WERE AWARDED FIRST CLASPS.
A PRINCIPAL AMBULANCEMAN, MR. MUI KWING, WHO HAS COMPLETED 30 YEARS OF SERVICE WAS PRESENTED WITH A SECOND CLASP TO HIS MEDAL.
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