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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1980
DAN WILL NOT BE LEAVING HONG KONG PERMANENTLY. HE PLANS TO RETURN IN DECEMBER AFTER LEAVE OVERSEAS.
+ INTEND TO KEEP BUSY WITH CONSULTANCIES, RESEARCH, SOME WRITING AND THE PROMOTION OF PHYSICAL TRAINING IN HONG KONG NOW THAT MY TIME IS MY OWN, HE SAID.
DAN JOINED THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT IN 1954 AND WAS MADE HEAD OF THE CONSTRUCTION DEPARTMENT OF THE FORMER TECHNICAL COLLEGE IN 1963. HE WAS THE PRINCIPAL OF THE FIRST TECHNICAL
INSTITUTE MORRISON HILL WHEN IT OPENED IN 1968.
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IN THE EARLY 1970S WHEN IT BECAME APPARENT THAT TECHNICAL EDUCATION WAS PARTICULARLY VITAL TO THE PROSPERITY OF HONG KONG, DAN WAS POSTED TO EDUCATION HEADQUARTERS TO OVERSEE DEVELOPMENTS IN THIS AREA.
BETWEEN 1974 AND 1980, HE PLAYED A VITAL ROLE IN THE ESTABLISHMENT OF FOUR ADDITIONAL TECHNICAL INSTITUTES - KWAI CHUNG, KWUN TONG, HAKING WONG AND LEE WAI LEE AND SAW ENROLMENT, BOTH PART-TIME AND FULL-TIME, JUMP FROM ABOUT 8 700 TO OVER 23 000.
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+ THE GROWTH IN NUMBERS OF TECHNICAL STUDENTS, AT CRAFT AND TECHNICIAN LEVELS, HAS BEEN QUITE STAGGERING AND IS POSSIBLY UNEQUALLED ANYWHERE ELSE IN THE WORLD, DAN SAID.
ANOTHER SIDE OF HIS LIFE WHICH IS LITTLE KNOWN EVEN AMONG HIS CLOSE FRIENDS IS THAT DAN WAS A MEMBER OF THE DESERT RATS+ WHO SAW ACTION AT SALERNO AND ANZIO. HE WAS WOUNDED THREE TIMES DURING THE WAR.
AT HIS FAREWELL PRESENTATION TODAY, ATTENDED BY LARGE NUMBERS OF HIS FRIENDS IN EDUCATION, MR KEN TOPLEY, DIRECTOR OF EDUCATION, REMARKED THAT DAN DESERVED A WELL-EARNED REST BUT DOUBTED VERY MUCH THAT WITH HIS BOUNTIFUL ENERGY, HE WOULD REMAIN INACTIVE FOR VERY LONG.
AUSTRALIAN PENAL OFFICIAL HERE ON A VISIT ****
THE CHAIRMAN OF CORRECTIVE SERVICES COMMISSION, NEW SOUTH WALES, AUSTRALIA, DR T. VINSON, IS CURRENTLY IN HONG KONG TO TAKE A CLOSE LOOK AT THE PENAL SYSTEM HERE.
HE BEGAN HIS PROGRAMME TODAY (TUESDAY) BY VISITING THREE PENAL INSTITUTIONS, THE PIK UK PRISON, THE PIK UK CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTION AND THE LAI CHI KOK RECEPTION CENTRE.
DURING THE VISITS HE SAW INMATES ENGAGED IN PRODUCTION WORK OR ATTENDING CLASSES. HE WAS BRIEFED ON VARIOUS FACILITIES AND PROGRAMMES PROVIDED FOR DIFFERENT TYPES OF INMATES.
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