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THURSDAY, JULY 26, 1979

AS A RESULT OF HIS PROMPT AND COURAGEOUS ACTION, THE WOUNDED MEN WERE ARRESTED ON THE SPOT AND THE STOLEN PROPERTY RECOVERED.

AT A TRIAL IN THE HIGH COURT LAST MONTH BEFORE MR. JUSTICE O'CONNOR BOTH WERE FOUND GUILTY AND ONE WAS SENTENCED TO SEVEN-AND-A-HALF-YEAR AND THE OTHER TO FIVE-AND-A-HALF-YEAR IMPRISONMENT. THE JUDGE ALSO PRAISED MR. WOO FOR HIS PROPER ACTION.

PRESENTING THE BANNER, THE MANAGER OF THE COMPANY, MR. AU SAID, I FEEL THAT MR. WOO KIN-LEUNG HAS SET AN EXAMPLE FOR ALL CIVIL SERVANTS AS A CUSTOMS OFFICER WHO KEEPS CALM IN DANGER AND DEVOTES HIMSELF TO KEEPING LAW AND ORDER IN OUR COMMUNITY.+

BOOKS FROM GERMANY FOR SCHOOL AND PUBLIC LIBRARIES

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SCHOOL LIBRARIES AND PUBLIC LIBRARIES WILL BE SHARING A COLLECTION OF MORE THAN 280 BOOKS DONATED TO HONG KONG BY THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY.

MRS. LOUISE MOK, ACTING ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF EDUCATION (CHIEF INSPECTOR OF SCHOOLS) TODAY (THURSDAY) RECEIVED THE BOOKS ON BEHALF OF THE LIBRARIES FROM MRS. ELKE KORFF, CONSUL (PRESS AND CULTURE) OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY.

THE DONATION CONSISTS OF COPIES OF THE CHINESE TRANSLATION OF A GERMAN BOOK ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF PHYSICAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, BOOKS ON GERMAN HOLIDAYS AND FOLK CUSTOMS, AND OTHER BOOKS AND PICTORIALS ON THE GEOGRAPHY AND PEOPLE OF GERMANY IN ENGLISH AND GERMAN.

THESE BOOKS WILL BE DISTRIBUTED LATER TO SCHOOL AND PUBLIC

LIBRARIES.

THE PRESENTATION TOOK PLACE AT THE CONFERENCE ROOM OF THE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT'S ADVISORY INSPECTORATE AT LEE GARDENS, HYSAN AVENUE, CAUSEWAY BAY, HONG KONG.

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