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Maintenance of tracks at Lo Wu Marshalling Yard

Mr. R.E. Gregory, General Manager, visited China from 6th to 9th May, 1977 to discuss railway matters of mutual interest with the Chinese railway authorities. He was invited to visit Toronto by the Government of Ontario, Canada from 3rd to 13th June, 1977 before proceeding on home leave from 14th to 25th June, 1977. During his home leave, duty visits were made to the Crown Agents, Westinghouse Brake and Signal Co. and Transmark which was a subsidiary consultancy company of the British Railways. At the request of the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and The Pacific of the United Nations, he flew to Bang Kok on 10th December, 1977 to attend to first session of the Committee on Shipping and Communications before proceeding on annual leave and overseas visits from 23rd December, 1977 to 25th January, 1978. He went on leave again from 22nd February, 1978 prior to the mutual termination of his agreement with effect from 1st April, 1978. During his absence on the above occasions, Mr. U.L. Wong, Assistant General Manager, acted in his place as General Manager.

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Approval was given in October 1977 for Mr. U.L. Wong, Railway Workshops Engineer, to be promoted to the post of Assistant General Manager (Planning and Administration) with retrospective effect from October, 1973. Mr. Y.H. Choi, Traffic Controller, was also promoted in October 1977 to the post of Assistant General Manager (Traffic).

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During the year a total of 16 officers retired from the service. Officers who joined the Railway during the year included Mr. K.C. Cheng who succeeded Mr. H. Singh as Departmental Secretary and Mr. LUNG Chun-pong who filled the new post of Electrical Engineer.

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Mr. CHAN Yiu, the Foreman in charge of the Foundry Shop of the Railway Workshops in Ho Tung Lau, was honoured by the award of British Empire Medal by Her Majesty the Queen in recognition of his long and meritorious service.

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Meetings between the General Manager and staff associations, including the Railway Workers' Union and Traffic Officers' Association, were held regularly to improve staff-management relationship. Heads of Divisions and Sections also held meetings with the Railway Workers' Union and the Traffic Officers' Association and only those matters which could not be resolved at these levels were referred to the meetings between the General Manager and the staff associations for settlement.

TRAINING

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In-service training continued to be promoted at all levels. sent on various training courses during the year included the following :-

Local Courses

Mr. CHOI Shun-shing, Project Manager, attended a Decision Making Course. Messrs. U.L. Wong and Y.H. Choi, Assistant General Manager, Railway, attended a Directorate Seminar.

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