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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1990

THIRTY-FOUR LIFE SAVERS HONOURED

THIRTY-FOUR MEMBERS

*

OF THE

* *

COMMUNITY WERE COMMENDED TODAY

(MONDAY) FOR THEIR COURAGE IN SAVING 65 PEOPLE FROM DROWNING.

THE GROUP

WAS

PRESENTED THE RESCUE

STAR,

THE HIGHEST

HONOUR FOR WATER RESCUE, BY THE DIRECTOR OF AGRICULTURE AND FISHERIES, DR LAWRENCE LEE.

SPEAKING AT THE PRESENTATION CEREMONY Held

REPULSE BAY, DR LEE LIFE GUARD CLUB (HKLGC) IN SAVERS' SELFLESS AND GALLANT ACTS, ADDING THAT THEY EXAMPLE FOR US ALL.

TO AT SEA.

THE ANNUAL AWARD WAS ESTABLISHED IN 1962 TO PARTICIPATE IN LIFE-SAVING OPERATIONS PEOPLE HAD RECEIVED RESCUE STARS.

AT THE HONG KONG PRAISED THE LIFE HAD SET A GOOD

ENCOURAGE PEOPLE SINCE THEN, 809

THIS YEAR'S AWARD WENT TO 10 FISHERMEN AND 24 THE REGIONAL SERVICES DEPARTMENT (RSD) AND THE OCEAN PARK.

LIFEGUARDS FROM

NAMED

RESCUE 19 LIFE

LED THE FISHERMEN GROUP то MR HO DING-FAT, WHO

THIS

WAS YEAR, BRITISH SOLDIERS OFF TAP MUN ON JUNE 17 SAVER OF THE YEAR AND WAS HONOURED WITH THE TIEN HAU TROPHY.

TYPHOON SIGNAL WAS HOISTED AT THE TIME OF RESCUE, THE NO. 1

FOUND FLOATING AND THE BRITISH SOLDIERS, WHOSE BOAT HAD SUNKEN, WERE AT SEA.

WEATHER AND

SEAS, THE ROUGH FISHERMEN RUSHED OUT IN SAMPANS AND RESCUED ALL THE SOLDIERS.

DESPITE THE

INCLEMENT

THE

PUBLIC AMONG THE LIFEGUARDS, MR YUNG KAM-PUI OF RSD'S TUEN MUN

NUMBER

IN OF LIVES.

THE SWIMMING POOL SAVED THE HIGHEST

SWIMMING NINE SWIMMERS WHILE SEASON OF THIS YEAR, MR YUNG ALTOGETHER RESCUED

SAVED FIVE HIS COLLEAGUE AT THE SAME SWIMMING POOL, MR LAM CHI-YUNG, PEOPLE.

MR HO PUI, ALSO RESCUED ANOTHER RSD LIFEGUARD, AT BUTTERFLY BEACH, TUEN MUN, IN THIS SWIMMING SEASON.

FIVE SWIMMERS

PROVIDED SOME IN 1990, THE HKLGC

4.400 VOLUNTEER LIFEGUARD AT BATHING BEACHES, SERVICES

SWIMMING POOLS AND VARIOUS WATER AND A TOTAL OF RECREATIONAL ACTIVITIES ORGANISED BY SOCIAL BODIES, 1,007 PEOPLE WERE RESCUED FROM DROWNING.

MOREOVER, THE CLUB CONTINUED TO PROMOTE YOUTH

SWIMMING COMPETITIONS,

ON

LIFE-SAVING, SWIMMING

PROGRAMMES WITH POSTER AND

6,700 PEOPLE PARTICIPATING IN ITS DESIGN CONTEST AND TRAINING

FIRST AID.

SESSIONS

/THE CLUB