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FRIDAY, JULY 3, 1987

REPORTING ON HIS ATTENDANCE TOGETHER WITH THE CHAIRMAN OF ACAN,

THE PROFESSOR GERALD CHOA, AT

RECENT INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DRUG ABUSE AND ILLICIT TRAFFICKING (ICDAIT), IN VIENNA BETWEEN JUNE

MR AND 26, 17

MULLOY

WORK AND SAID HONG KONG'S REMARKABLE

ACCORDED EXTENSIVE ACHIEVEMENTS IN CURBING THE DRUG PROBLEM HAD BEEN RECOGNITION AT THE WORLD'S FIRST MINISTERIAL-LEVEL CONFERENCE.

COUNTRIES AND NARCOTICS.

THAT HE FURTHER NOTED

WAS AN EXAMPLE

HONG KONG WAS AHEAD FOR OTHERS IN THE

OF MANY OTHER BATTLE AGAINST

FIREMAN'S JOB ONE OF MIXED ELEMENTS: CS

* *

WERE TOLD THAT THEIR ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY RECRUIT FIREMEN

IN A WORK COULD ENTAIL DANGER AND FRUSTRATION WHEN THEY PARTICIPATED

SCHOOL AT PAT PASSING OUT PARADE HELD AT THE FIRE SERVICES TRAINING HEUNG TODAY (FRIDAY).

THE CHIEF SECRETARY, MR DAVID FORD, WHO TOOK THE SALUTE AT PARADE, SAID THAT A FIREMAN'S JOB WAS NOT ALWAYS A GLAMOROUS ONE.

DOWN AND

THE

"WHEN THE FLAMES AND EXCITEMENT HAVE DIED

THE REMAIN SIGHTSEERS HAVE GONE HOME TO THEIR BEDS YOU WILL OFTEN HAVE TO

OF A GUTTED BUILDING, ALL NIGHT LONG IN THE DARK AND WET CONFINES

TIME THAT YOU WILL BE SOAKED TO THE SKIN, OFTEN HUNGRY UNTIL SUCH RELIEVED OR YOUR JOB IS COMPLETED, HE SAID.

MR FORD ALSO SAID THAT WHILE A FIREMAN'S LIFE COULD EXCITING AND SOMETIMES DANGEROUS, THERE WERE ALSO SOME OTHER THEY WOULD HAVE TO COPE WITH.

COULD

FOR INSTANCE, FIREMEN UNFAIRLY, BY THOSE WHO DID NOT COULD NOT ALWAYS BE SUCCESSFUL.

SOMETIMES

BE

INDEED BE

ELEMENTS

OFTEN

CRITICISED, APPRECIATE THAT THEIR BEST EFFORTS

ΤΟ WORK AS FIREMEN THEY WOULD HAVE

LONG

OFTEN HOURS,

ALSO ENJOYING HOLIDAY PERIODS, AND SOMETIMES OTHER PEOPLE WERE TO DEAL WITH TRAGIC INCIDENTS.

WHEN

HAVE

"YOU IN SPITE OF THESE DIFFICULTIES, MR FORD SAID,

EQUIPPED, OR COMPETENT, COME TO REALISE THAT NO ONE ELSE IS YOUR JOB."

TO

WILL SOON DO

"THE PUBLIC WILL CALL UPON YOUR SERVICES AT ALL HOURS OF THE THE FULL DAY OR NIGHT IN ALL KINDS OF ADVERSE WEATHER CONDITIONS, IN KNOWLEDGE THAT IT IS YOU AND ONLY YOU THAT THEY CAN TURN TO FOR HELP."

AFTER REVIEWING THE PARADE, MR FORD THE BEST RECRUIT TO FIREMAN TONG TAK-YAN.

PRESENTED

THE

AWARD FOR