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WEDNESDAY, MAY 31, 1989

BECAUSE ONLY 14 68 VACANCIES

"WE NEED TO UPGRADE OUR RECRUITMENT CAMPAIGN STATION OFFICERS WERE RECRUITED LAST YEAR ΤΟ FILL DESPITE CONTINUOUS RECRUITMENT EFFORTS," HE SAID.

MR LAM SAID AT LEAST 98 VACANCIES FOR STATION BE REQUIRED TO BE FILLED IN THE CURRENT FINANCIAL YEAR.

OFFICERS WOULD

ALSO BE 376 VACANCIES 332 FOR AMBULANCEMEN

FOR WHICH

HE ANTICIPATED THAT THERE WOULD FIREMEN, SIX FOR AMBULANCE OFFICERS AND NEEDED TO BE FILLED IN THE 1989-90 FINANCIAL YEAR.

"WE ARE OFFERING A CAREER OF VARIETY, INTEREST AND TO YOUNG PEOPLE WHO WISH TO SERVE THE COMMUNITY," HE ADDED.

OPPORTUNITY

FOR STATION OFFICERS AND FIREMEN, AN APPLICANT SHOULD BE 30 YEARS OF AGE. HAVE GOOD PHYSIQUE AND NORMAL EYESIGHT SPECTACLES AND BE ABLE TO SPEAK FLUENT CANTONESE AND READ CHINESE.

UNDER

WITHOUT

AND WRITE

LEAST

HE SHOULD BE 168 CENTIMETRES TALL OR ABOVE AND WEIGHS AT 55 KILOGRAMS. HIS CHEST MEASUREMENT SHOULD NOT BE LESS CENTIMETRES DEFLATED, WITH AN EXPANSION OF AT LEAST FIVE CENTIMETRES.

THAN 86

FIREMEN IS STATION ENGLISH HONG KONG

THE MINIMUM ACADEMIC QUALIFICATION REQUIRED FOR SATISFACTORY COMPLETION OF FORM III AND APPLICANTS FOR OFFICERS MUST POSSESS AT LEAST FIVE SUBJECTS INCLUDING LANGUAGE (SYLLABUS B) AT GRADE E OR ABOVE IN THE CERTIFICATE OF EDUCATION EXAMINATION.

MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC WISHING ΤΟ JOIN THE DEPARTMENT AS AN AMBULANCEMAN SHOULD BE UNDER 30 YEARS GOOD PHYSIQUE AND BE ABLE TO SPEAK FLUENT CANTONESE WRITE CHINESE.

OF AND

FIRE SERVICES AGE. HAVE READ AND

HE SHOULD BE WITHIN THE HEIGHT RANGE OF 165 TO 191 AND CORRESPONDING WEIGHT RANGE OF 52 TO 87 KILOGRAM IN PROPORTIONAL HEIGHT AND WEIGHT SCALE.

A

CENTIMETRES SPECIFIC

HIS CHEST MEASUREMENT SHOULD NOT BE LESS THAN 84 CENTIMETRES DEFLATED. WITH AN EXPANSION OF AT LEAST FIVE CENTIMETRES.

THE MINIMUM ACADEMIC

QUALIFICATION REQUIRED 13 SATISFACTORY

COMPLETION OF FORM III.

THE STARTING SALARY FOR FIREMEN VARIES FROM $4.496 то PER MONTH DEPENDING ON QUALIFICATIONS, AND RISES TO A 37.150. FOR STATION OFFICERS, THE STARTING SALARY VARIES

MAXIMUM OF FROM TO $11.530, AGAIN DEPENDING ON QUALIFICATIONS. AND THE MAXIMUM IS $20.490.

$4.940

39.275

SALARY

THE STARTING SALARY FOR AN AMBULANCEMAN RANGES FROM $4,355 то $4.790, DEPENDING ON QUALIFICATIONS, AND RISE TO $6,935.

ALL RECRUITS WILL RECEIVE PROPER TRAINING AT THE FIRE SERVICES TRAINING SCHOOL AT PAT HEUNG IN THE NEW TERRITORIES.

RECRUITING CENTRES.

APPLICATION FORMS IGF

FIRE

340)

STATIONS

ARE AND

AVAILABLE AT AMBULANCE

THE DEPOTS. AND

FIRE

ALL

DISTRICT OFFICES.

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