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DAILY INFORMATION BULLETIN-SUPPLEMENT
ISSUED BY GOVERNMENT INFORMATION SERVICES BEACONSFIELD HOUSE, HONG KONG TEL: 5-233191
Friday, August 8, 1980
ADDRESS BY H.E. THE ACTING GOVERNOR, SIR JACK CATER KBE JP AT THE AUXILIARY MEDICAL SERVICE OFFICERS' MESS DINNER
ON 8 AUGUST 1980
It is a great pleasure for me to be here with you to celebrate the
30th Anniversary of the founding of the Auxiliary Medical Service.
I have
I have long admired the selfless and unstinting contribution
which the AMS has made on so very many occasions to the welfare of our
community. This contribution has been a considerable one throughout the
years of your existence: and as a former Defence Secretary I remember only
too well the invaluable work that the Service has performed in the past,
especially for the less privileged members of the community.
Wherever and whenever help and assistance is needed to support
at our
the regular medical and health services you are to be found
beaches, in our hospitals, on ambulances and nowadays (most importantly
and very regularly) in the methadone treatment centres throughout the
territory. Your role is one of great importance and your voluntary services
a source of inspiration and encouragement to everyone with whom you come
Nowhere was this more obviously demonstrated than in the
in contact.
/splendid way .....