FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1986
DR REED SAID MORE ATTENTION MUST BE GIVEN TO INFORMING AND EDUCATING THE PUBLIC ABOUT GOVERNMENT EFFORTS TO REDUCE POLLUTION AND TO ENCOURAGE THE PUBLIC TO DO THE IR PART IN AVOIDING OR REDUCING POLLUTION.
HE HOPED THAT INCREASED PUBLICITY ON ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS WOULD EVENTUALLY BRING ABOUT AN IMPROVED PUBLIC ATTITUDE AND COMMITMENT ON ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSIBILITY.
IN ADDITION TO THE TALKS, HE SAID, PUBLICITY MATERIALS WERE NOW BEING PREPARED BY THE GOVERNMENT INFORMATION SERVICES IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY,
THE PUBLICITY MATERIALS, INCLUDING A TELEVISION COMMERCIAL, POSTERS, RADIO ANNOUNCEMENTS AND PRESS RELEASES, WILL BE DISSEMINATED THROUGH THE MASS MEDIA STARTING FROM MAY.
DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF LANDS RETIRES
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A MAN WHO CAME TO HONG KONG BECAUSE HE WANTED A CHANGE AND OVER THE PAST 26 YEARS HAS SEEN MORE CHANGES THAN EVEN HE IMAGINED RETIRES FROM GOVERNMENT SERVICE TODAY (FRIDAY).
HE IS MR PATRICK ANTHONY WARD, 59. PADDY TO HIS FRIENDS AND COLLEAGUES, MR WARD HAS BEEN DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF LANDS SINCE THE DEPARTMENT WAS SET UP IN 1982, SOMETHING IN WHICH HE PLAYED A MAJOR PART.
MR WARD AND HIS WIFE WILL LEAVE HONG KONG ON THE LINER CANBERRA ON MARCH 8 AND WILL SETTLE IN THE IR HOME IN SUTTON COLDFIELD NEAR BIRMINGHAM.
FOR MR WARD IT WILL BE THE END OF A LIFETIME OF LIVING OVERSEAS. UNTIL HE WAS 12 HE LIVED IN SUDAN WHERE HIS FATHER WORKED. AFTER STUDYING IN ENGLAND HE SERVED IN THE BRITISH ARMY IN INDIA AND LATER WORKED IN EAST AFRICA BOTH IN THE PRIVATE AND PUBLIC SECTORS.
ASKED WHY HE CAME TO HONG KONG IN 1960, MR WARD REPLIED: +THAT'S A GOOD QUESTION. I WANTED A CHANGE AND I'D READ A GOOD DEAL ABOUT HONG KONG BECAUSE IT WAS VERY MUCH IN THE NEWS IN THOSE DAYS. THERE WAS A VERY ACTIVE PROPERTY MARKET EVEN THEN.+
ON HIS ARRIVAL HE WAS ONE OF THE FIRST THREE SURVEYORS SENT TO THE NEW TERRITORIES ADMINISTRATION.
+THE NEW TOWNS WERE JUST AN IDEA THEN, HE SAID, ALTHOUGH
IT WAS FELT DEVELOPMENT HAD STARTED ON TSUEN WAN AND KWAI CHUNG. THE NEW TERRITORIES NEEDED PROFESSIONAL SUPPORT AND ADVICE AND THAT WAS WHY WE WERE SENT THERE.
/AFTER FIVE