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curriculum vitae.
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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.
Nevertheless,
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