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TUESDAY, MAY 21, 1991

THEY VISITED THE REGIMENT'S A SQUADRON AT PAK HOK CHAU, AS WELL AS UNITS AT LOK MA CHAU AND MAN KAM ΤΟ. SIR DAVID WAS LATER BRIEFED ON THE REGIMENT'S BORDER OPERATIONS AT SQUADRON D'S BASE AT. DILLS CORNER CAMP.

SIR DAVID WAS IMPRESSED BY THE ENTHUSIASM AND DEDICATION DISPLAYED BY THE VOLUNTEERS WHO COME FROM ALL WALKS OF LIFE. HE ALSO ENCOURAGED PEOPLE TO RESPOND ΤΟ THE REGIMENT'S ANNUAL RECRUITMENT EXERCISE WHICH WILL BE OPEN UNTIL THE END OF JUNE.

THE REGIMENT IS LOOKING TO VOLUNTEERS THIS YEAR.

SPEAKING TO REPORTERS AFTER THE

ENLIST 200 MEN AND 25 WOMEN

VISIT, SJR DAVID SAID HONG

KONG WAS LUCKY TO HAVE SO MANY PEOPLE WHO WERE GIVING THEIR TIME VOLUNTARY THIS WAY.

COMMENTING ON THE ILLEGAL NUMBER WAS SLIGHTLY DOWN ON SUBSTANTIAL NUMBER COMING.

IMMIGRANT SITUATION, HE SAID THE LAST YEAR BUT THERE WERE STILL A

"OBVIOUSLY, THERE IS AN IMPORTANT JOB TO BE DONE," HE SAID.

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ON THE FUTURE OF THE REGIMENT AFTER 1997 SIR DAVID SAID THE REGIMENT WOULD NOT EXIST IN ITS PRESENT FORM AFTER 1997. HE SAID:

"BUT WE DO NEED TO TAP THE VOLUNTEER SPIRIT.

"THERE WILL BE THE OPPORTUNITY TO OBVIOUSLY GOING TO AUXILIARY POLICE FORCE OR OTHER AUXILIARY ORGANISATIONS.

JOIN THE

"WE WOULD LIKE TO GIVE THEM THE OPPORTUNITY TO DO JUST THAT AND THAT'S SOMETHING WE WILL BE LOOKING FOR,"

SCS MEETS LORD CAITHNESS IN LONDON

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THE SECRETARY FOR THE CIVIL SERVICE, MR BARRIE WIGGHAM, NET THE FOREIGN OFFICE MINISTER WITH SPECIAL RESPONSIBILITY FOR HONG KONG, LORD CAITHNESS, IN LONDON TODAY (TUESDAY).

THEY DISCUSSED MATTERS RELATING TO THE CIVIL SERVICE IN HONG KONG DURING THEIR MEETING AT THE FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE WHERE MR WIGGHAM ALSO HELD MEETINGS WITH STAFF IN THE HONG KONG DEPARTMENT.

MR WIGGHAM IS EN LONDON AS PART OF A TOUR OF OVERSEAS OFFICES TO MEET STAFF AND SEE HONG KONG OFFICERS UNDERTAKING STUDIES AT MAJOR UNIVERSITIES.

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