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WEDNESDAY, MAY 31. 1989

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MARINE SEARCH AND RESCUE EXERCISE COMPLETED

AN INTERNATIONAL MARINE SEARCH AND RESCUE

EXERCISE. INVOLVING

HONG KONG, CHINA AND MACAU RESOURCES. WAS SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETED (WEDNESDAY) AFTERNOON.

THIS

BY THE MARITIME RESCUE THE EXERCISE, WHICH WAS CO-ORDINATED

WAS DESIGNED ΤΟ CO-ORDINATION CENTRE (MRCC) OF THE MARINE DEPARTMENT.

AND THE RESOURCES RESCUE AND TEST AND EVALUATE ALL SEARCH

PROCEDURES BETWEEN HONG COMMUNICATION AND LIAISON

KONG GOVERNMENT RESCUE CENTRE DEPARTMENTS, THE GUANGDONG MARINE EMERGENCY SEARCH AND AND THE MACAU MARINE POLICE.

THE HONG

KONG GOVERNMENT

AGENCIES

PARTICIPATING

IN

.

CIVIL

THE

EXERCISE INCLUDED MARINE DEPARTMENT, CIVIL AVIATION DEPARTMENT. ROYAL AID ROYAL HONG KONG, POLICE, HONG KONG AUXILIARY AIR FORCE.

LOCAL COMMERCIAL FERRY SERVICES AND AUXILIARY MEDICAL SERVICES. TWO COMPANIES ALSO PROVIDED VESSELS FOR THE EXERCISE.

WHICH HONG KONG

IN A

BEGAN AT 9 AM. WAS TO THE SCENERIO OF THE EXERCISE,

WHICH WAS INVOLVED LOCATE AN OUTBOUND FERRY FROM "COLLISION" WITH ANOTHER VESSEL SOMEWHERE IN THE PEARL RIVER ESTUARY.

MRCC ACTIVATED A SEARCH ON RECEIPT OF THE MESSAGE THE "DISTRESS" VESSEL WITH 208 PASSENGERS ON BOARD, ALL OF "EVACUATED" BY MEANS OF AN RHKAAF HELICOPTER, A COMMERCIAL AND THE "NAM HAI NO.1" OF THE GUANGDONG MARINE RESCUE CENTRE.

EMERGENCY

AND LOCATED WHOM WERE HOVERFERRY SEARCH AND

GOVERNMENT GRANTS FOR MATRICULATION STUDENTS

* * * * *

FOR APPLICATIONS

GOVERNMENT

MAINTENANCE

GRANTS

FOR

MATRICULATION COURSES IN 1989-90 ARE NOW BEING INVITED.

ARE THE AWARDS

WHO HAVE

EDUCATION

THEY ARE

MADE ANNUALLY ΤΟ NEEDY STUDENTS IN OBTAINED GOOD RESULTS

THE HONG KONG

OF CERTIFICATE AWARD AS AN EXAMINATION IN THE YEAR OF

THAT INDICATION LIKELY TO BE SUCCESSFUL EITHER IN THE HIGHER LEVEL EXAMINATION OR ADVANCED LEVEL EXAMINATION.

THE

APPLICANTS MUST BE SUPPORTED BY RECOMMENDATIONS FROM

HEADS OF

SCHOOLS.

MAINTENANCE GRANT

BY A DETERMINED

OF FINANCIAL IN THE

THE AMOUNT OF

SHALL BE IN THE LIGHT GOVERNMENT MAINTENANCE GRANTS COMMITTEE NEED AND FUNDS AVAILABLE. GRANTS AWARDED IN 1988-89 HAVE BEEN REGION OF $230 A MONTH.

THE ANNUAL

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