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Constitution of the Committee.
The Committee was constituted with the following members:
The Hon. Mr. T. M. Hazlerigg, C.B.E., M.C. (Chairman), Commodore D. H. Everett, C.B.E., D.S.O., R.N.,
Commodore-in-Charge, Hong Kong,
The Hon. Mr. V. Kenniff, Director of Public Works, Mr. W. M. Thomson, Director of Supplies, Trade & Industry, Mr. I. B. Trevor, M.C., Manager of the Railway,
The Hon. Mr. D. F. Landale,
The Han. Mr. T. N. Chau, C.B.E.,
The Hon. Mr. C. C. Roberts,
Mr. R. Y. Frost,
Mr. Lawrence Kadoorie,
Mr. R. A. Wickerson,
Mr. Li Koon-chun,
Mr. C. G. F. F. Melmoth (Secretary).
Circumstances which lead to the appointment
of this Committee.
(1) In 1941, the late Sir David Owen, formerly General Manager
of the Port of London Authority, visited the Colony and submitted a
report in which the main proposal was that a Port Trust to control,
but not to operate, the port facilities be set up in Hong Kong.
His proposals were accepted in principle by the Governor in Council
at that time. (A copy of Sir David Owen's Report is included in
Appendix I.)
(2) Before hostilities ceased and prior to the re-establishment
of Civil Government in Hong Kong, arrangements were made in London on
the assumption that the creation of a Port Trust as outlined by the
late Sir David Owen, would form part of the programme of work to be
carried cut in the course of rehabilitating the Colony. Mr. C. J. Oolman,
then Director General of Ports and Navigation, Iraq, and previously for
many years a principal officer of the Calcutta Port Trust, was engaged
for a short term to set up the proposed Port Trust, and a Hong Kong
Port Consultative Committee was convened in London to advise the
Secretary of State on matters concerning the carrying into effect of
the late Sir David Owen's proposals. The London Committee concluded
its work on the 17th April, 1946, by considering and commenting on a
draft Port Trust Ordinance which Mr. Colman had prepared, as by that
time the Civil Government was about to be restored in Hong Kong.