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Friday, January 4, 1974
NEW NAME AND ADDRESS FOR TRANSPORT DEPARTMENT
The Transport Department Headquarters is moving to new premises
in the Murray Road Multi-storey Car Park in Central on Monday (January 7).
It will occupy the 9th floor. The new telephone number for the
offices will be 5-260121.
At the same time, the Transport Department will take on a new
Chinese name. It will be known as "Woo Soo Chew". The name change is to
avoid confusion between the department and the Police Traffic Branch,
which is known in Chinese as "Gau Tung Bo",
Later this month, the Hong Kong Licensing Office of the department
will also move from its present offices at Rumsey Street Reclamation to
the ground and mezzanine floors of the multi-storey car park complex at
No. 2 Murray Road.
The move to larger premises marks a further step in the rapid
development of the Transport Department, which began with a staff of 23
as a branch of the Colonial Secretariat in December 1965.
A year later, it took over from the Police the registration and
licensing of vehicles and drivers, and most of the powers concerned with the
regulation of road traffic.
It thus became a sizeable executive unit of the government and
was established as a department, separate from the Colonial Secretariat,
in December 1968.
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