March 7 lest their senior member from the point of view of service, when Supervising: Fireman G Chao Ah-ping died at the Lester Hospital, from heart-failure. He represented the third generation of a Fire Brigade family whose service oralled 73 years.
Up to the Inst two or three years Ahping attended fires, but latterly he has been Supervisin Fireman at Bubbling Well where he was of great assistor and proved a valued link in the control of the Chinese staff.
Alvping's grandfather joined the Brigade as a mafoo, working at the Foochow Road stables, and died in the service 17 years later, Ah-ping's father also joined the Brigade, og a mafoo to the Deluge Company, and t the age of 50 after 18 years!
(On his father's death Ah-ping was 16. He immediately stepped into his father's shoes as a Deluge mafoo, in March, 1895. His death on March 7, at the age of 54, was from @ recurrence of heart trouble from which he had suffered reevotly.
He leaves behind him a son who, however, is not in the Brigade, and the remarkable service of the family throughout mast of the Brigade's existence now comes to an ing himself served 38 years in the Brigade, the next to lone service having
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