MONDAY, JANUARY 4, 1988
REGIMENT WILL CONTINUE ITS PRESENT ROLE: COMMANDER
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THE COMMANDING OFFICER OF THE ROYAL HONG KONG REGIMENT (THE VOLUNTEERS), LT. COL. JEREMY HUTCHINS TODAY (MONDAY) OF THE VOLUNTEERS THAT THE REGIMENT WOULD CONTINUE PRESENT ROLE FOR AT LEAST THE NEXT FIVE YEARS.
LT. COL. HUTCHINS TOLD THE VOLUNTEERS AT A BRIEFING AT THE HAPPY VALLEY HEADQUARTERS THAT THE LONGER TERM FUTURE WOULD BE A MATTER FOR REVIEW IN THE EARLY 1990'S.
"THE GOVERNMENT IS COMMITTED TO MAINTAINING INVESTMENT IN TRAINING AND MATERIALS TO ACHIEVE THIS AND CONSEQUENTLY THE REGIMENT WILL REMAIN A VALUABLE ASSET FOR SOME CONSIDERABLE TIME TO COME. HE ADDED.
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TOP CUSTOMS MEN PROMOTED
DEPARTMENT
THREE SENIOR OFFICERS OF THE CUSTOMS AND EXCISE WILL SOON TAKE UP NEW APPOINTMENTS AT THE DIRECTORATE LEVEL FOLLOWING THE RETIREMENT OF TWO TOP-RANKING OFFICERS.
THE PROMOTIONS WILL MEAN THAT ONLY ONE EXPATRIATE, THE COMMISSIONER, MR PATRICK WILLIAMSON, WILL REMAIN IN THE DEPARTMENT. MR WILLIAMSON SAID THIS DEMONSTRATED THE PROGRESS OF THE GOVERNMENT'S LOCALISATION POLICY.
THE PRESENT ASSISTANT COMMISSIONER OF CUSTOMS AND EXCISE (INVESTIGATION), MR TONG KANG-SING, WILL TAKE OVER FROM MR J.C. PRISK AS DEPUTY COMMISSIONER AS FROM JANUARY 26 WHEN THE LATTER GOES ON PRE- RETIREMENT LEAVE.
SENIOR SUPERINTENDENT OF CUSTOMS AND EXCISE, MR KWONG HOI-LAM, WILL IN TURN REPLACE MR TONG AS ASSISTANT COMMISSIONER (INVESTIGATION} ON THE SAME DATE.
CUSTOMS
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EXCISE
THE DEPARTMENT EXCISE,
THE ASSISTANT COMMISSIONER OF (HEADQUARTERS), MR WALTER NEIL, WILL ALSO RETIRE FROM AND WILL BE SUCCEEDED BY SENIOR SUPERINTENDENT OF CUSTOMS AND MR CHOW KWOK-WOON, AS FROM MARCH 2.
MR TONG JOINED THE FORMER COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY DEPARTMENT AS REVENUE OFFICER IN 1956 AND WAS PROMOTED TO THE RANK OF ASSISTANT COMMISSIONER IN 1985.
MR KWONG JOINED THE DEPARTMENT AS REVENUE OFFICER CLASS I I IN 1955 AND REACHED THE RANK OF SENIOR SUPERINTENDENT IN 1981, WHILE MR CHOW JOINED AS REVENUE SUB-INSPECTOR IN 1960 AND ROSE то SENIOR SUPERINTENDENT IN 1981.
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