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SATURDAY, JANUARY 21, 1989

MR LAW POINTED OUT THAT THE DEPARTMENT RECRUITING ITS FIRST BATCH OF WELFARE WORKERS UNTIL ONLY 31 OF THE DEPARTMENT'S 144 WELFARE WORKERS HAD OF EXPERIENCE.

DID NOT START JULY 1984, AND OVER FOUR YEARS

AS AT LEAST FIVE YEARS OF EXPERIENCE WAS NEEDED BEFORE A WELFARE WORKER COULD BE PROMOTED TO THE SENIOR WELFARE WORKER RANK, ALL THE SENIOR POSTS FOR THIS RANK AT THE MOMENT WERE IN THE VOLUNTARY SECTOR, HE SAID.

"THE DEPARTMENT IS NOW REVIEWING ITS ESTABLISHMENT ΤΟ SER IF SENIOR WELFARE WORKER POSTS COULD BE CREATED TO PROVIDE PROMOTION OPPORTUNITIES FOR WELFARE WORKERS WHO WILL SOON HAVE FIVE YEARS OF EXPERIENCE IN THE DEPARTMENT," MR LAW SAID.

THE WELFARE WORKER RANK HAS BEEN EXPANDING RAPIDLY OVER THE PAST FEW YEARS AND IT CURRENTLY COVERS A WIDE SPECTRUM OF SERVICES INVOLVING SERVICE UNITS SUCH AS COMMUNITY CENTRES, SOCIAL CENTRES THE ELDERLY, CHILDREN AND YOUTH CENTRES, DAY ACTIVITY CENTRES, HOMES FOR THE ELDERLY AND FOR CHILDREN.

SPECIAL CAR NUMBERS SOLD BY AUCTION

TWENTY SPECIAL VEHICLE REGISTRATION NUMBERS WERE PUT UP FOR AUCTION THIS (SATURDAY) MORNING FOR A TOTAL OF 99,948,000 WHICH WILL GO TO THE GOVERNMENT LOTTERIES FUND FOR CHARITY PURPOSES.

THE AUCTION, HELD AT THE CITY HALL THEATRE. SAW THE REGISTRATION NUMBER 7 FETCH THE HIGHEST PRICE OF $4,800,000.

ANOTHER NUMBER, 66, WAS SOLD AT THE SECOND HIGHEST PRICE $2,100,000, WHILE THE LOWEST PRICE WAS $28,000 FOR CG6789.

OF

FOLLOWING ARE THE RESULTS OF TODAY'S AUCTION :

$

BM9 378

41,000 155,000

CG6789 AR3

28,000 7 155,000

XX89

HK3333 190,000

BC99

55,000

AC323

56,000

4,800,000 CD777 56,000 BM525

CC8888

$ 100,000

35,000

560,000

AS18

100,000

133

500,000

HK98 8

155,000

HK5

440,000

66

2,100,000

EA 1

160,000 BỞI

200,000

AC8338

62,000

SUCCESSFUL BIDDERS WERE REQUIRED TO PAY BY

AFTER THE BIDDING.

CHEQUE

IMMEDIATELY

TO VEHICLES WITHIN 12 MONTHS

REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF THE OF THE DATE OF AUCTION.

THE NUMBERS AUCTIONED WILL BE ASSIGNED SUCCESSFUL BIDDERS

ONLY

TODAY'S SALE, THE 134TH ORGANISED BY THE TRANSPORT DEPARTMENT SINCE MAY 1973. BROUGHT THE TOTAL AMOUNT OF MONEY FOR CHARITY

REALISED SO FAR TO $79,088, 032.

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