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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1989

CHIEF FIRE OFFICER TO RETIRE AFTER 35 YEARS' SERVICE

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TODAY THE DIRECTOR OF FIRE SERVICES, MR JOHN MARCH,

YUK-FAN WHO PRESENTED A SOUVENIR TO CHIEF FIRE OFFICER TAM

35 YEARS' SERVICE WITH THE RETIRING SHORTLY AFTER

FIRE

DEPARTMENT.

BEHALF OF MR MARCH PRESENTED THE SOUVENIR ON

A CEREMONY HELD AT THE AND MR TAM'S COLLEAGUES AT HEADQUARTERS IN TSIM SHA TSUI EAST,

[ TUESDAY}

WILL SERVICES

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THE DEPARTMENT FIRE SERVICES

THE HONG KONG COMMAND. MR TAM YUK-FAN IS AT PRESENT HEAD OF

SERVICES AS A SUB-OFFICER IN BORN IN 1932. MR TAM JOINED THE FIRE

PROMOTED то 1954 AND WAS PROMOTED TO STATION OFFICER IN 1962. HE WAS

DIVISIONAL OFFICER ASSISTANT DIVISIONAL OFFICER FIVE YEARS LATER AND IN 1975.

OFFICER IN 1980 IN

MR TAM ROSE TO THE RANK OF SENIOR DIVISIONAL AND DEPUTY CHIEF FIRE OFFICER IN 1985. HE REACHED HIS PRESENT RANK 1987.

HE WAS

AWARDED

THE

COLONIAL

POLICE

MEDAL

MERITORIOUS

FOR SERVICE IN 1976 AND THE QUEEN'S FIRE SERVICES MEDAL THIS YEAR.

DEPARTMENT,

MR

PROTECTION FORMATIONS

DURING HIS LONG SERVICE WITH THE FIRE SERVICES TAM HAS SERVED IN VARIOUS OPERATIONAL AND FIRE IOF THE DEPARTMENT.

FOR

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HE WAS AWARDED THE DIRECTOR OF FIRE SERVICES' COMMENDATION FORTITUDE, DEVOTION TO DUTY AND DISREGARD OF HIS PERSONAL SAFETY IN

IN ΤΟ SPECIAL SERVICE IN 1967 AT THE HONG KONG AND CHINA GAS COMPANY

SEALED WATER .KWA WAN WHERE A

GASHOLDER.

PERSON

WAS

FOUND

TRAPPED

INSIDE A

RELICS UNEARTHED AT LUNG KWU TAN EXCAVATION

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A NUMBER OF SIGNIFICANT RELICS HAVE BEEN UNEARTHED

IN TUEN MUN SINCE WORK STARTED RESCUE EXCAVATION AT LUNG KWU TAN EARLY LAST MONTH.

DURING THE

IT IS ESTIMATED

THE LATE WHO LIVED

THE RELICS WOULD DATE BACK TO NEOLITHIC PERIOD. AND SHED LIGHT ON THE PREHISTORIC PEOPLE IN THE NEW TERRITORIES.

SUCH AS POLISHED

STONE IMPLEMENTS SUCH

QUARTZ

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THE RELICS INCLUDE ARTISTIC OBJECTS RINGS. COARSE CORDED POTS AND A WIDE RANGE OF AS HAMMERS, GRINDING STONES, CRYSTAL FLAKES AND SPLITTERS,

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