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curriculum vitae.
You will see he has the Cantonese smaller-scale businessman background of Tse, and much of the same Kaifong/Clansmen's Associations/traditional Chinese attitudes. He was quite effective on the Urban Council while he was there and is well known and respected for his traits of character. I am not entirely clear why he resigned from the Urban Council: I think he just got fed up with the nonsense there. His appointment will go down fairly well I think, and I hope he will prove a useful member. Certainly I can think of no one in this general category likely to be better.
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0. Cheung (a Q.C.) has acted as a provisional member on several occasions and has made a number of effective contributions. The Bar (as opposed to the Solicitors) have not had a member for some considerable time and have represented that they would like one: indeed, a barrister can be quite useful. He is also part-Chinese of the 'local boy' genre and we haven't had this particular group of non-Chinese permanent residents represented since Ruttonjee left Council. To a degree, also, he will fill the gap left by Watson. Cheung has not previously served on the Urban Council, nor indeed on more than a few specialized Committees having been much occupied with building his practice.
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T.K. Ann is a very able Shanghai industrialist who has been of great help to us as an adviser in textile matters and has served as a provisional member several times already. The Council has been without an influential northern Chinese textile representative since P. Y. Tang left. He is perhaps somewhat narrowly concentrated on his own field; but it is, after all, one which is concerned with our most important exports and this alone merits fairly steady representation of these interests in Council.
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