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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 10,

1991

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SPENDING

ON THE NEWLY OPENED GOOD WISH GARDEN, MR SUEN SAID ITS

FEEL LIKE MAKE PEOPLE WOULD CHINESE STYLE DESIGN HOLIDAY THERE AS WELL AS ATTRACTING TOURISTS FROM OVERSEAS.

HE ALSO ENCOURAGED MEMBERS OF SIK SIK THE GOOD TRADITION OF THEIR INSTITUTION BY FUTURE OF THE TERRITORY.

ANCIENT THEIR

YUEN TO CONTINUE WITH ACTIVELY STRIVE FOR THE

CHEUNG CHAU RESIDENTS ASSURED OF BETTER FIRE PROTECTION

FIRE AND

CHEUNG CHAU RESIDENTS WERE TODAY (TUESDAY) PROTECTION AND SERVICES DURING OFFICIAL.OPENING OF THE CHEUNG CHAU FIRE STATION.

ASSURED OF BETTER FOLLOWING EMERGENCIES

THE

WAS STATION

PLANNED IN 1977

TO

IN

THE $5.4 MILLION NEW FIRE REPLACE THE OLD STATION ON PRAYA STREET AND WAS PUT INTO OPERATION MAY 1989.

METRES, THE STATION HAS A SQUARE OCCUPYING AN AREA OF 775

FIRE APPLIANCES, INCLUDING WELL-EQUIPPED FLEET OF THREE MODERN AND TWO MINI-APPLIANCES, AND A STAFF OF 27 FIRE SERVICES OFFICERS.

FIRE AND

FIRE STATION, THE SPEAKING AT THE OPENING OF THE CHEUNG CHAU CHAIRMAN OF ISLANDS DISTRICT BOARD, MR LAM WAI-KEUNG, SAID: "THE

PROMOTE FIRE PROTECTION SERVICES DEPARTMENT HAS WORKED HARD TO PROVIDES EXCELLENT SERVICES, RESULTING, IN A GREAT DECREASE IN SERIOUS FIRES.

"

"EVERYBODY KNOWS THAT HONG KONG FIRE SERVICES 19 THEIR OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE," HE SAID.

RENOWNED

FOR

CITY WITH

HONG SAID

KONG WAS A DENSELY-POPULATED MR LAM CROWDED LIVING ENVIRONMENT, ADDING THAT FIRES FREQUENTLY OCCURRED.

"IN

THIS

THE REGARD,

CONTRIBUTION

++ HE SAID.

DEPARTMENT IS REMARKABLE.

OF THE FIRE SERVICES

THE MR LAM SAID IN ORDER TO COPE WITH THE RAPID DEVELOPMENT OF

HAD ENHANCED THE RECENT

THE YEARS,

DEPARTMENT OUTLYING AREAS IN SERVICES TO MEET THE NEEDS OF EACH INDIVIDUAL DISTRICT.

EQUIPPED STATIONS, "NOWADAYS, FIRE APPLIANCES, ARE SET UP ON ALL THE FOUR OUTLYING AREAS.

WITH

SOPHISTICATED

FIRE

"AS FAR AS I KNOW, FIRE SERVICES ON THE OUTLYING

AREAS HAS A

LONG HISTORY," HE SAID.

/TAKING CHEUNG