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SUNDAY AUGUST

1991

INCREASING ROLE FOR POST OFFICE IN TELECOMMUNICATIONS: ACTING GOVERNOR

TODAY (SUNDAY) SAID THE THE ACTING GOVERNOR, SIR DAVID FORD,

INCREASING IMPORTANT ROLE POST OFFICE HAS IN RECENT YEARS PLAYED AN IN OVERSEEING THE PHENOMENAL GROWTH OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS SERVICES HONG KONG.

IN

ANNIVERSARY RECEPTION,

GAIN PROMINENCE IN

OFFICIATING AT THE POST OFFICE'S 150TH SIR DAVID SAID THE ROLE OF THE POST OFFICE WOULD THE YEARS TO COME.

BEEN INSTRUMENTAL

SIR DAVID SAID EFFICIENT COMMUNICATIONS HAD TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF HONG KONG INTO A MAJOR INTERNATIONAL CITY.

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BE PROUD OF THE ROLE IT HAD THE POST OFFICE COULD JUSTLY

IN TRANSFORMING HONG KONG INTO PLAYED OVER THE LAST 150 VIBRANT AND PROSPEROUS SOCIETY, HE ADDED.

YEARS

MESSAGES WHICH PLUCK AT OUR "THE POSTMAN BRINGS TO US MANY

ROLE IN HEART-STRINGS BUT ON A MORE PRACTICAL LEVEL ALSO PLAYS A KEY HELPING BUSINESS AND COMMERCE TO KEEP IN TOUCH,

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HE SAID.

ΤΟ THE STAFF OF THE POST THE ACTING GOVERNOR PAID TRIBUTE OFFICE FOR THEIR HARD WORK AND DEDICATED SERVICE TO THE PUBLIC.

WHICH HAD WON AWARDS BEING THE

SIR DAVID ALSO PRAISED THE POST OFFICE FOR SUCCESSIVE YEARS FROM PRIVATE SECTOR ORGANISATIONS FOR MOST COURTEOUS GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENT.

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HEAVIER FINES FOR LABOUR OFFENCES

THE NUMBER OF PROSECUTIONS D'OR LABOUR OFFENCES OF FINES IMPOSED BY THE COURTS CONTINUED TO GO UP IN OF THIS YEAR.

AND THE LEVEL THE FIRST HALF

SUCCESSFULLY BROUGHT

$8.21 MILLION.

IN FINES IN

DURING THE PERIOD, THE LABOUR DEPARTMENT 1,917 CASES TO COURT, RESULTING IN FINES AMOUNTING TO THESE COMPARED WITH 1,758 CONVICTIONS AND $7.19 MILLION THE SAME PERIOD LAST YEAR.

IN THE FROM $4,091

TSANG MR

PER C'ENT INCREASE "THE COMPARISON ALSO SHOWS A NINE NUMBER OF CONVICTIONS WHILE THE AVERAGE FINE HAS GONE UP

OFFICER (PROSECUTIONS), TO

LABOUR $4,288," THE SENIOR KIN-WOO, SAID TODAY (SUNDAY).

MARKED INCREASES IN THE ORDINANCE, INCLUDING HOLIDAYS AND PAYMENT

MR TSANG EXPRESSED CONCERN OVER THE

EMPLOYMENT THE NUMBERS OF SOME OFFENCES UNDFR THE NON-GRANTING OF HOLIDAYS, UNDERPAYMENT FOR IN LIEU OF HOLIDAYS.

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