MONDAY, JUNE 27, 1983
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+WE SHALL NOT MAINTAIN OUR PLACE IN THIS COMPETITIVE WORLD WITHOUT A WELL EDUCATED WORKING POPULATION POSSESSING APPROPRIATE PROFESSIONAL AND INDUSTRIAL AND TECHNICAL SKILLS; AND WE MUST MAINTAIN THE GREAT ADVANTAGE WHICH HONG KONG ENJOYS OF BILINGUALISM IN ENGLISH AND CHINESE.+
REFERRING TO THE PROBLEMS OF THE PROPERTY MARKET, SIR EDWARD SAID THAT THIS WAS CAUSED BY THE NORMAL OPERATION OF THE MARKET AND COMMERCIAL MISJUDGEMENT, AND NOT BY GOVERNMENT ACTIONS.
+THE GOVERNMENT HAS, IN FACT, DONE WHAT IT CAN TO MITIGATE THE EFFECTS ON THE ECONOMY AS A WHOLE.
+IT HAS MAINTAINED ITS OWN BUILDING PROGRAMMES. OTHERWISE THE IMPACT ON THE CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY WOULD HAVE BEEN MUCH GREATER,+ SIR EDWARD SAID.
NOR WAS THE SITUATION ALL GLOOM, HE SAID, POINTING TO A CONSIDERABLE AMOUNT OF PRIVATELY FINANCED CONSTRUCTION EXPENDITURE STILL BEING UNDERTAKEN AND THE SPENDING TO COME, AS INDICATED BY FUTURE BUILDING PLANS.
LIFEGUARD PRAISED FOR BRAVERY ****
A NEW TERRITORIES SERVICES DEPARTMENT LIFEGUARD, MR LEUNG YIU-FAI, WAS PRAISED TODAY FOR DEVOTION TO DUTY AND BRAVERY FOR HIS PART IN A RESCUE OPERATION AT TONG FUK BEACH, LANTAU ISLAND, ON SUNDAY (JUNE 26).
MR LEUNG WAS PRAISED BY URBAN SERVICES OFFICER, MR IP KIT-TIT, AT QUEEN MARY HOSPITAL, WHERE THE LIFEGUARD IS RECOVERING FROM RIB INJURIES SUFFERED IN THE RESCUE OPERATION.
MR IP WAS ACCOMPANIED BY NTSD HEADQUARTERS ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR WELFARE, MISS KATIE CHING, AND THE DISTRICT AMENITY OFFICER OF ISLANDS, MR WONG CHING-AU.
MR LEUNG WAS AMONG FOUR LIFEGUARDS STATIONED AT UPPER CHEUNG SHA BEACH WHO RACED TO TONG FUK BEACH, A NON-GAZETTED BEACH WHERE NO LIFE-SAVING SERVICE IS PROVIDED, ON LEARNING THAT A COUPLE WERE IN DIFFICULTY WHILE SWIMMING IN ROUGH SEAS SHORTLY BEFORE 2 PM ON SUNDAY.
ON HELPING TO RESCUE TWO MEN FROM THE ROUGH SEAS IN THE AREA, AND THEN LEARNING THAT A THIRD PERSON, A WOMAN, WAS MISSING, MR LEUNG LEFT THE RESCUE PARTY AND CONTINUED IN HIS CANOE IN SEARCH OF THE WOMAN. HOWEVER, HIS CANOE CAPSIZED IN THE ROUGH SEAS AND STRONG WINDS, MR LEUNG HAD TO BE HELPED ASHORE BY HIS COLLEAGUES AND SENT TO HOSPITAL.
THE WOMAN SWIMMER WAS NOT FOUND.
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