ROYAL VISIT PRESS RELEASE
Thursday, April 24, 1975
TEENAGE POLICE CADET TV IDOL
Lam Ka-wah, 17, is one of 300 cadets at the Royal Hong Kong Police Cadet School who will be on hand when the Duke of Edinburgh visits the school on May 5.
Ka-wah is a typical cadet. He goes through the regime of study, recreation, training and group discipline like 299 others. Ве is clean-cut and fresh indeed, all his colleagues are and on parade nothing distinguishes him, or lifts him above, the trim anonymity of the
group.
Yet he is different, for he comperes a popular television.. programme, Junior Police Call, screened every Saturday night, and has become the idol of thousands of teenagers.
They like his style, his obvious enjoyment of the part, the sincerity he brings into it, and his ease before the camera.
To them,
he is almost a professional at work, the boy next door suddenly projected
into another extra-curricular role.
But Ka-wah himself is aware of the effort involved. He realises
that his composure is the result of confidence acquired during training
provided by the school. Not born shy, still the naturalness he portrays has not been plucked out of the blue, but cultivated after much encouragement
and moulding.
The school's aim
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