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splendid way you mobilised your Service last year to meet the demands for

assistance posed by the arrival of Vietnamese refugees the boat people.

Many of you worked long hours in extremely difficult and demanding conditions,

providing medical facilities for those on board ships like the Huey Fong:

first health-screening and immunization services ashore; medical support and

assistance in the refugee camps themselves; and in countless other ways.

I am immensely grateful for all that you have done. and continue to do.

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In the future I am sure we shall need to call upon your services, as

we have done in the past 30 years and probably even more so, I know, too,

that you will respond agnificently and will discharge whatever duties we ask

of you with the same efficient devotion to duty, compassion and good humour

as you have done in the past. It is a source of immense reassurance that

the community can rely so completely on you all.

Ladies and Gentlemen, I ask you now to rise and drink a toast with me:

to the Auxiliary Medical Service.

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