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DAILY INFORMATION BULLETIN
Thursday, December 8th, 1960
/ Canton Railway. PRESENTATION OF INSIGNIA AT GOVERNMENT HOUSE
4/12/6
The following is the list of citations at today's ceremony of
Presentation of Insignia at Government House:
MR. J.J. CONPERTHWAITE
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·0.B.E. (Civil)
Mr. Cowperthwaite has carried out very important duties in the
financial and economic branches of the Administration, particularly since
1955. He has acted as Financial Secretary and Director of Commerce &
Industry and has held the substantive post of Deputy Financial Secretary
since November, 1956. He has represented Hong Kong abroad at a number of
Conferences dealing with economic and commercial problems. His ability is
exceptional and he has, in consequence been called on to carry additional
responsibilities from time to time and he has done so with success.
PROFESSOR F.S. DRAKE - 0.B.E. (Civil)
For over forty years Professor Drake has devoted himself to active
academic work in China, and, during the last ten years, he has been mainly
instrumental in building up the Department of Chinese and the Institute of
Oriental Studies in the University of Hong Kong to its present standard of
ominence in the scholastic world. With his knowledge of Chinese and his
fine scholarship, he and the scholars he has attracted to his school are
making a very valuable contribution to the study and preservation of Chinese
culture in Hong Kong.
DR. THE HONOURABLE A.M. RODRIGUES 0.B.E. (Civil)
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Dr. Rodrigues has been a leading member of the Portuguese community
He has served as a nominated member of Urban Council, was
for many years.
an Unofficial Member of Legislative Council for six years until Juno, 1959,
/and has
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