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FRIDAY, AUGUST 21, 1987

"YOU ARE PART OF THE FUTURE OF THIS VETERAN MEMBERS DOWN, MR HOLMES SAID.

SERVICE

DON'T LET US

IT WAS WITH MIXED FEELINGS OF JOY AND SADNESS, MR HOLMES SAID

AND REPUTATION WILL A PLEASURE "TO SEE HOW OUR STANDARDS, OUR NAME

OF CONTINUE TO GROW IN THE EYES OF THOSE WE SERVE, THAT IS THE PUBLIC HONG KONG, AND IN THOSE OF OUR COLLEAGUES OUTSIDE HONG KONG.

STAND OUR OWN

"AND WITH THAT WEE TING OF SADNESS IN KNOWING THAT AS I

TIME AS A HERE IT WILL BE MY LAST

то REVIEWING OFFICER

SERVICE.

COME, IF NOT DECEMBER

"YOU SHOULD REMEMBER THIS DAY FOR MANY YEARS TO

INDEED AS I REMEMBER MY OWN PASSING-OUT PARADE IN FOREVER 1951, CONDUCTED IN SCOTLAND, IN SNOW, HAIL, RAIN AND ICE!"

REMINDED

REPRESENT SERVICE THE

"YOU HAVE ENTERED A SERVICE WITH A FIRST CLASS REPUTATION,

YOU THAT

EACH BOTH IN HONG KONG AND ABROAD - SO REMEMBER

YOU DO, AND THE THIS SERVICE WHEREVER YOU GO AND WHATEVER

MR SHALL BE JUDGED BY YOUR WORDS AND ACTIONS,"

HOLMES

GRADUATES.

MR HOLMES TOLD THEM THAT AS A MEMBER OF THE 30 YEARS HE ENJOYED EVERY MINUTE OF HIS WORK.

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SERVICE FOR

SOME

IS "THIS YEAR AS YOU ARE ALL AWARE, OR SHOULD BE BY THIS TIME,

POINT IN FACT AT THIS

IN TIME I, OR I MY LAST YEAR AS DIRECTOR

AND SOME 10 HOURS BEFORE WE SHOULD REALLY SAY, WE, HAVE 107 DAYS LEAVE HONG KONG ON DECEMBER 6.

MR HOLMES ALSO PRESENTED THE BEST

PROBATIONARY YAU-MING.

STATION

RECRUIT AWARDS TO OFFICER CHENG WOON-KIT AND FIREMAN TSANG

GRACE PERIOD EXTENDED FOR ARTICULATED VEHICLE DRIVERS

HOLDERS OF THE "ALL

GOODS

ISSUED ARTICULATED VEHICLES

VEHICLES" DRIVING LICENCE BEFORE AUGUST 25, 1984 WILL BE ALLOWED TO DRIVE UP TO AUGUST 21 NEXT YEAR (1988).

THAT

A TRANSPORT DEPARTMENT SPOKESMAN TODAY (FRIDAY) EXPLAINED

FOR THIS FOLLOWED A 12-MONTH EXTENSION OF THE THREE-YEAR GRACE PERIOD

ARTICULATED VEHICLE GOODS VEHICLE DRIVERS WHO HAVE YET TO ACQUIRE AN

WAS PUBLISHED IN DRIVING LICENCE. A GOVERNOR'S ORDER TO THIS EFFECT THE GOVERNMENT GAZETTE TODAY.

THE GRACE