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TUESDAY, JUN 18, 1974

+OF THE NEED TO APPLY THE SCHEME THERE CAN BE ABSOLUTELY NO JOUBT. THE PUBLIC RIGHTLY EXPECTS THE GOVERNMENT TO ANTICIPATE EVENTS AND NOT TO BE OVERTAKEN BY THEM - TO PLAN FOR TO-MORROW AND THE DAY AFTER AND NOT JUST FOR TODAY.

+STARING US 1 THE FACE IN MID-LEVELS WAS A TRAFFIC SITUATION WHICH WAS LEADING REMORSELESSLY TO A CONDITION OF CHAOS IN THE NEXT TWO OR THREE YEARS. SOMETHING HAD TO BE DONE, AND DONE IN GOOD TIME.

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+SOMETHING HAS BEEN DONE AND IT HAS PROVED EFFECTIVE. SCHEME WORKS. LIKE ALL NEW SCHEMES IT HAS NOT BEEN PERFECT, ESPECIALLY IN THE OUTSET. AS EXPECTED, IT HAS BEEN CAPABLE OF IMPROVEMENT. IT HAS JEEN IMPROVED, IS BEING IMPROVED AND WILL JJUBTLESS BE FURTHER LIPROVED.+

RETIREMENT OF ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF EDUCATION

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MR. YEUNG KWONG-SHIU, ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF EDUCATION (PRIMARY), WILL GO ON PRE-RETIREMENT LEAVE LATER THIS MONTH AFTER 22 YEARS' SERVICE.

HE WILL BE PRESENTED WITH A GIFT FROM HIS FRIENDS AND COLLEAGUES UN JUNE 20. THE PRESENTATION WILL BE MADE BY THE ACTING DIRECTOR OF EDUCATION, MR. CHARLES LOWE.

MR. YEUNG WILL LEAVE HONG KONG ON JUNE 30 TO JOIN HIS FAMILY IN VANCOUVER.

HE BEGAN HIS CAREER AS AN ASSISTANT EDUCATION. OFFICER IN 1952. NINE YEARS LATER HE WAS PROMOTED TO EDUCATION OFFICER. IN 1969 HE BECAME SENIOR EDUCATION, OFFICER AND WAS APPOINTED ASSISTANT DIRECTOR IN OCTOBER 1971.

MR. YEUNG ATTENDED A "ONE-YEAR COURSE FOR ADMINISTRATORS AND HEAD-TEACHERS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF LONDON INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION ON A COMMONWEALTH TEACHER TRAINING "BURSARY IN 1961.

FROM SEPTEMBER 1970 TO JUNE 1971, MR. YEUNG ATTENDED A COURSE IN PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER.

HOTE TO EDITORS:

YOU ARE INVITED TO HAVE THE PRESENTATION CEREMONY COVERED. IT WILL BE HELD AT 11.39 A.M." ON JUNE 20 IN THE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT'S CONFERENCE ROOM, LEE GARDENS, 3RD FLOOR, HYSAN AVENUE, CAUSEWAY BAY, HONG KONG.

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