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Saturday, October 28, 1972

SHIP-BUILDING AND SHIP-REPAIRING SAFETY GUIDE

Note to Editors:

The Marine Department has published

a guide setting out safe working practices in the shipbuilding and ship-repairing industries.

The guide has been prepared by a

working party which was set up last October following a number of fires and explosions in recent years on board ships either under const- ruction or repairs.

To introduce the guide, a Prèss con- ference, to be chaired by the Deputy Director of Marine, Mr. R. Blacklock, will be held at the

G.I.S. 35 mm Theatre on Monday, October 30.

Mr. Blacklock, Chairman of the Working

Party, will also take the opportunity to speak on

Government's response to recommendations made by the Commission of Inquiry investigating the fires on board the "Jumbo" floating restaurant and the

"Seawise University".

Also present will be Mr. B.S. Makhija, Surveyor of Ships of the Marine Department, and

a member of the working party.

You are invited to send a reporter and/or photographer to cover the Press conference which

will be held in the 35 mm Theatre, Government

Information Services Department, 5th Floor,

Beaconsfield House, on Monday, October 30.

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