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Saturday, June 30, 1973

AUXILIARY MEDICAL SERVICE SUMMER CAMP

Five hundred and fifty officers of the Auxiliary Medical Service attended the AMS annual summer camp in the Sai Kung area this week.

The camp was held in the grounds of the Sung Tsun Middle School, and AMS members attending came from districts in North Kowloon and the New Territories.

A highlight of the two-day programme was the opening parade, inspected by the Rev. Father A. Lambertoni, Supervisor of the Sung Taun Middle School, who described the AMS as "a society in miniature, with different levels of control over a large membership, comprising volunteers from all walks of life."

Activities on the first day included practical first aid demonstrations, followed by a variety show,

On the second day, an early morning parade was followed by squad and stretcher drills. Later, members split up into groups for life-saving training, hiking, reconnaissance and route-finding, and other exercises.

Before the camp broke up, Dr. Raymond Mok, Deputy Controller of the AMS for Kowloon and the New Territories, praised senior officers for successfully organising this year's programme,

Dr. Mok also thanked the Rev. Father Lambertoni for making the Sung Teun Middle School available for the annual function. At the end of August, he said, another group of AMS officers, numbering 500 from the southern districts of the Kowloon peninsula, would hold another camp in the same school grounds.

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