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SENIOR APPOINTMENTS IN HONG KONG
Problem
1.
Department
The term of office of
the present Colonial
Secretary, Sir Hugh Norman-Walker, is due to expire
at the end of December 1973.
provide for a replacement.
we have It is necessary to This allo means that whe It is also necessary to
the proposed Accessor to the
must be consider arrangements for the pest of Chief Justice,
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sinoo ite present imeumbént, Sir I VO Kingsley,
is due to retire this year.
attains the age of 63 later this year,
Background
who
2. The Governor has recently made recommendations
about both appointments, and after careful considerat-
ion has now suggested for the post of Colonial Secretary
Mr DT E Roberts, presently Attorney-General in
Hong Kong. Mr Roberts, on whom a curriculum vitae is
attached, is 50. He has excellent all-round
qualities including administrative ability and
political sense, combined with his professional back-
ground.
is
3. There has, however, a complication in that
Mr Roberts has been previously recommended for appoint-
ment as the next Chief Justice of Hong Kong in May
this year.
The Queen has given approval to this
nomination, but no appointment has been made.
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would then still be possible for an alternative
It
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