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TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND SOUND RECORDING AND

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THURSDAY, MARCH 14, 1985

REPRODUCING APPARATUS

AND EQUIPMENT

712

230

+ 482

+210

ARTICLES OF APPAREL AND

CLOTHING ACCESSORIES

618

546

72

+ 13

OFFICE MACHINES AND

AUTOMATIC DATA

PROCESSING EQUIPMENT

546

134

+ 413

+309

MISCELLANEOUS MANUFACTURED

ARTICLES

525

324

+ 201

+ 62

$633M PUBLIC HOUSING TENDERS ACCEPTED

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TENDERS TOTALLING MORE THAN $633 MILLION WERE APPROVED TODAY BY THE HOUSING AUTHORITY'S BUILDING COMMITTEE FOR YET ANOTHER BATCH OF PUBLIC HOUSING PROJECTS.

WORKS WILL INCLUDE THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE FIRST PHASE OF TWO NEW ESTATES -- TSUI LAM IN JUNK BAY NEW TOWN AND CHEUNG ON ON TSING YI ISLAND, THE BUILDING OF MORE BLOCKS IN LEI TUNG ESTATE ON AP LE! CHAU, AS WELL AS THE INSTALLATION OF LIFTS/ ESCALATORS ON NEW STRUCTURES IN THE HIN KENG AND LEI TUNG ESTATES.

THE MEETING WAS CHAIRED BY MR H.M.G. FORSGATE.

OLD LADY OF THE SEA RETIRES ****

AS THE MARINE POLICE REGION UNDERGOES EXPANSION AND PROGRESS, MORE AND MORE OF THE OLD POLICE LAUNCHES, ARE HAVING TO RETIRE.

POLICE LAUNCH 33. ''SEA RESCUER''

WHICH HAS BEEN REPLACED

BY THE MODERN AND SOPHISTICATED PL 71, KING YEE, IS NO EXCEPTION. THE SEA RESCUER WILL SOON BE BURIED IN MARINE HISTORY AS IT OES ON TO AN UNKNOWN FUTURE AFTER BEING HANDED OVER TO THE GOVERNMENT DOCKYARD.

THE LAUNCH WAS ONE OF THE LEGENDARY 70-FOOTERS, THE OLDEST OF WHICH HAVE BEEN IN SERVICE WITH MARINE SINCE 1953. DURING HER 23-YEAR SERVICE IN MARINE, SHE SERVED. IN WEST AND NORTH SECTORS BEFORE SHE CAME TO EAST DIVISION BEFORE HER RETIREMENT.

/SHE HAS