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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1976

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MR. JOHNSTON SAID THAT THE OTHER LOTS TO BE SOLD AT PUBLIC AUCTION WERE IN THE SAI KUNG, YUEN LONG AND TAI PO DISTRICTS,

+THE BIGGEST LOTS ARE AT TAI PO KAU AND WILL ALSO BE DEVELOPED FOR LOW DENSITY RESIDENTIAL PURPOSES,+ HE SAID. +ONE LOT IS 23,690 SQUARE METRES (255,000 SQUARE FEET) AND THE OTHER IS 52,769 SQUARE METRES (568,000 SQUARE FEET).+

ANY INQUIRIES ABOUT THE LAND SALES PROGRAMME SHOULD BE DIRECTED TO THE SENIOR ESTATE SURVEYOR, NEW TERRITORIES ADMINISTRATION, TAI PO ROAD, KOWLOON. (TELEPHONE 3-708864)

CBF INSPECTS PASSING-OUT PARADE OF FIREMEN

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THE COMMANDER BRITISH FORCES, LIEUTENANT GENERAL SIR JOHN ARCHER, TOLD FIREMEN AND AMBULANCEMEN TAKING PART IN A PASSING-OUT PARADE TODAY (SATURDAY) THAT THEY HAD CHOSEN A POSITIVE WAY OF SERVING THE COMMUNITY.

ADDRESSING THE 84 FIREMEN AND 27 AMBULANCEMEN WHO HAVE JUST COMPLETED A 26-WEEK TRAINING COURSE AT THE FIRE SERVICES TRAINING SCHOOL IN THE NEW TERRITORIES, SIR JOHN PRAISED THEM FOR NOT OPTING FOR THE EASY WAY OUT BUT CHOOSING SOMETHING ADVENTUROUS, SOMETHING WHICH WOULD REQUIRE THEM TO ACT ON THEIR OWN INITIATIVE" IN CIRCUMSTANCES OF DANGER.

HE SAID THAT IT WAS NOT A +CLOCK-WATCHING+ JOB EITHER, FOR THERE WOULD BE NO SET HOURS AND BOTH FIREMEN AND AMBULANCEMEN WOULD BE ON CALL AT ALL HOURS OF THE DAY AND NIGHT.

+ IN RECENT DAYS ALONE,+ SIR JOHN RECALLED, +WE HAVE HAD THE FIRES IN CHEUNG SHA WAN AND SHAM SHUI PO TO REMIND US OF WHAT CAN HAPPEN IN THE CROWDED CITY AREAS.+

HE NOTED THAT THIS YEAR ALONE, THE FIRE SERVICES HAVE TURNED OUT TO OVER 8,000 FIRES, ADDING THAT IN THEIR EFFORTS TO SAVE LIVES AND PROPERTY, SOME 36 FIREMEN HAD BEEN INJURED,

ALSO ON PARADE TODAY WERE ONE SQUAD OF FIRE OFFICERS AND ONE SQUAD OF SENIOR AMBULANCEMEN STILL UNDER TRAINING.

THE PARADE, THE 24TH SINCE THE OPENING OF THE TRAINING SCHOOL

IN 1968, WAS COMMANDED BY ASSISTANT DIVISIONAL OFFICER YIP LUN-CHEUNG.

AFTER THE PARADE SIR JOHN WATCHED A FIRE FIGHTING DEMONSTRATION GIVEN BY THE NEWLY QUALIFIED FIREMEN,

MUSIC WAS PROVIDED BY THE COMBINED PIPES AND DRUMS OF THE GURKHA ENGINEERS AND GURKHA SIGNALS.

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