ment; Miss Bessie CHENG, Social Welfare Officer Class I, had been one of her most stalwart lieutenants. Both have retired and taken with them the Department's warmest wishes and memories. Mr Norman F. CRAGG also departed after three years as our first professional Assistant Director, and there is scarcely any aspect of the Department's work on which he did not leave his mark. The difference made by having a qualified and experienced professional social worker as leader of the specialists and aide and adviser to myself and my office has been immeasurable. It is to people like these that the public owes gratitude for whatever the Social Welfare Department may have achieved on their behalf, and there are very many like them still serving.
11 May 1965.
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D. W. B. BARON, Director of Social Welfare.