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concurrently an Assistant Secretary for Chinese Affairs for the next five
years, except during his appointments as Acting Secretary for Chinese Affairs
in 1950 and 1952, In October 1952 he was requested to transfer to the Malayan
Civil Service as Chief Social Welfare Officer for the Federation of Malaya.
He returned to Hong Kong on transfer in April 1957, to succeed the late Mr.
B.C.K. Hawkins as Secretary for Chinese Affairs in May 1957. He is ex-officio
Chairman of the Tung Wah Hospitals Advisory Board, of the Po Leung Kuk
Permanent Board of Direction, of the Chinese Permanent Cemeteries Board of
Management, of the Panel of Review (Film Censorship), of the Aberdeen Technical
School Executive Committee, and of the Brewin Trust Fund, Chinese Recreation
Ground and Yau Ma Tei Public Square, Chinese Temples, Grantham Scholarships
Fund, Narcotics Advisory, and Sir Robert Black Trust Fund Committees; he is
also a member of the Community Relief Trust Fund Committee, of the Court of
the University of Hong Kong, and of the Council of the Chinese University of
Hong Kong, and was Chairman of the 1963 Working Party on Squatter Clearances,
Resettlement and Low Cost Housing.
The Financial Secretary
The Hon. J.J. Cowperthwaite. C.M.G., O.B.E.
Mr. John James Cowperthwaite, Financial Secretary, is an Official
Member of both the Executive and Legislative Councils. He joined the Hong
Kong Civil Service as a Cadet Officer in 1941. He was seconded to Sierra
Leone in 1942 and was transferred to the Hong Kong Planning Unit in 1945. In
1956 he was promoted to Staff Grade of the Cadet Servico and was appointed
Deputy Financial Secretary (Finance). Two years later, he was appointed
Deputy Economic Secretary (Economic). In 1959, he was promoted to Staff
Grade A and became Financial Secretary in 1961. He was made an Officer of
the Order of the British Empire (0.B.E.) in 1960 and appointed a Companion
of the Order of St. Michael and St. George (C.M.G.) in the 1964 New Year
/Honours