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SATURDAY, AUGUST 15, 1981
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TRAINING SCHOOL EX-COMMANDANT TAKES THE SALUTE
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CUSTOMS AND EXCISE SENIOR SUPERINTENDENT, MR P.L. WONG, TODAY (SATURDAY) EMPHASISED THAT PATIENCE, HARD WORK, COURAGE, PERSEVERANCE AND IMAGINATION ARE SOME OF THE QUALITIES DEMANDED OF CUSTOMS OFFICERS.
MR WONG WAS ADDRESSING THE PASSING OUT PARADE OF 60 CUSTOMS OFFICERS AND NINE CUSTOMS INSPECTORS AT THE CUSTOMS AND EXCISE TRAINING SCHOOL AT TAI LAM CHUNG IN THE NEW TERRITORIES.
WATCHED BY OVER 120 GUESTS, INCLUDING THE ACTING DIRECTOR OF TRADE INDUSTRY AND CUSTOMS, MR LAWRENCE MILLS, AND ACTING COMMISSIONER OF CUSTOMS AND EXCISE, MR KEITH BROADBRIDGE, MR WONG TOOK THE SALUTE AND INSPECTED THE PARADE.
COMPARING THE MODERN CUSTOMS AND EXCISE SERVICE WITH THE SERVICE OF THE 1950S, MR WONG SAID, DURING THE PAST 26 YEARS, THE SERVICE HAS SEEN MANY CHANGES. WHEN I JOINED IN 1955, THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE WHOLE SERVICE WAS LESS THAN 300, BUT IT HAS NOW GROWN TO NEARLY 2 000 AND IT IS LIKELY TO EXPAND TO ABOUT 2 400 BY THE END OF THIS FINANCIAL YEAR.+
AS EX-COMMANDANT OF THE TRAINING SCHOOL, MR WONG POINTED OUT HOW THE SCHOOL PROVIDES A WIDE RANGE OF FACILITIES AND IDEAL CONDITIONS FOR THE INTENSIVE AND COMPREHENSIVE TRAINING PROGRAMME. THE CUSTOMS AND EXCISE TRAINING COURSES GIVE RECRUITS THE BASIC KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS WHICH ENABLE THEM TO PARTICIPATE IN THE VARIOUS ACTIVITIES OF THE SERVICE IN SUCH FIELDS AS ANTI-NARCOTICS, COLLECTION AND PROTECTION OF REVENUE FROM DUTIABLE COMMODITIES, CONTROL OF IMPORT AND EXPORT OF PROHIBITED ARTICLES AS WELL AS PROTECTION OF COPYRIGHT.
BUT THE COMPLETION OF THE INDUCTION TRAINING IS NOT THE END OF THE LEARNING PROCESS, STRESSED MR WONG. +YOU HAVE, ON THE CONTRARY, MORE TO LEARN, HE TOLD THE RECRUITS. FOR THIS IS A LIVING AND GROWING SERVICE, AND THE PRACTICE OF YESTERDAY WILL NOT ALWAYS ANSWER THE NEEDS OF TOMORROW.+
SPEED RESTRICTIONS LIFTED ON TSUEN WAN BY-PASS
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SPEED RESTRICTIONS ON TSUEN WAN BY-PASS WILL BE LIFTED FROM 10 AM ON MONDAY (AUGUST 17).
THE FREE SPEED ZONE FOR KOWLOON-BOUND TRAFFIC WILL EXTEND FROM A POINT ABOUT 20 METRES EAST OF THE TEXACO ROAD ROUNDABOUT TO A POINT ON THE SLIP ROAD ABOUT 50 METRES WEST OF THE TSING YI ROUNDABOUT AND A LAMP POLE SITUATED ABOVE CONTAINER PORT ROAD.
FOR VEHICLES TRAVELLING TOWARDS TSUEN WAN, THE ZONE WILL EXTEND FROM THE LAMP POLE ABOVE CONTAINER PORT ROAD AND A POINT ON THE SLIP ROAD ABOUT 50 METRES WEST OF THE TSING YI ROUNDABOUT TO A POINT ABOUT 250 METRES EAST OF THE TEXACO ROAD ROUNDABOUT.
TRAFFIC SIGNS WILL BE PUT UP TO GUIDE MOTORISTS.
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