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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1989
OTHER AGENDA ITEMS INCLUDE
THE ERECTION OF
INFORMATIVE SIGNBOARDS AT ROADWORK SITES AND A PROPOSAL ΤΟ INSTALL PEDESTRIAN CROSSINGS AT THE JUNCTION OF TIN HAU TEMPLE ROAD WITH PAK FUK ROAD AND TIN HAU TEMPLE ROAD WITH BRAEMAR HILL ROAD.
NOTE TO EDITORS:
MEDIA REPRESENTATIVES ARE INVITED TO COVER THE MEETING OF THE EASTERN DISTRICT BOARD'S TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORT COMMITTEE ON THURSDAY (NOVEMBER 21 IN THE DISTRICT OFFICE CONFERENCE ROOM. FIRST FLOOR, 880-886 KING'S ROAD.
THE MEETING WILL BEGIN AT 2.30 PM.
FULL HONOURS FOR SENIOR FIREMAN
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THE FUNERAL OF SENIOR FIREMAN CHAN JENG-YU WAS HELD WITH FULL FIRE SERVICES HONOURS TODAY (TUESDAY).
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MR CHAN DIED FROM INJURIES SUSTAINED IN THE COURSE OF DUTIES. DURING THE FIGHTING OF A NO.4 ALARM FIRE AT SUN HING BUILDING NATHAN ROAD LAST WEEK.
THE OFFICIAL CEREMONY WAS HELD AT TSIM SHA TSUI FIRE STATION. WHERE THE LATE SENIOR FIREMAN CHAN WAS LAST POSTED. AFTER A RELIGIOUS SERVICE AT THE UNIVERSAL FUNERAL PARLOUR IN HUNG HOM.
THE COFFIN. DRAPED WITH THE UNION JACK AND ESCORTED BY SIX PALL-BEARERS. ARRIVED AT THE FIRE STATION ON BOARD A HEARSE WHICH WAS AN OLD-STYLE FIRE APPLIANCE.
WREATHS FROM THE GOVERNOR. THE DIRECTOR OF FIRE SERVICES AND OTHER SENIOR GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS WERE LAID AT THE CEREMONY.
THE CORTEGE THEN MOVED ON TO THE SCENE OF THE FIRE, WHERE REPRESENTATIVES FROM THE LOCAL COMMUNITY PAID THEIR LAST RESPECTS ΤΟ THE DECEASED AND STREET RITUALS WERE PERFORMED. IT LATER PROCEEDED THE CHAI WAN CHINESE PERMANENT CEMETERY FOR THE BURIAL CEREMONY.
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BORN IN 1951. THE LATE SENIOR FIREMAN CHAN JOINED THE FIRE SERVICES AS A FIREMAN IN 1972 AND WAS PROMOTED TO SENIOR FIREMAN IN 1982.
HE IS SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE AND TWO SONS. AGED 12 AND SEVEN.
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