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Recreation Grounds, a Member of the Air Transport Licensing Authority, a
Member of the Causeway Bay Reclamation Advisory Committee, a Member of the
Fish Prices Committoo, and a Member of the Trade and Industry Advisory
Committee. He was President of the Victoria Local Association of the Boy
Scouts Association and was Chairman of the Hong Kong and Kowloon Joint Kaifong
Research Council from 1954 to 1962. He is Honorary Adviser to the Chinese
Confucian Association, the Chung Sing Benevolent Society and the Pok Oi
Hospital.
The Hon. K.A. Watson. O.B.E.
Mr. Kenneth Watson, an auctioneer and photographer by profession,
was appointed a Member of the Urban Council and the Housing Authority in 1957.
He was the Urban Council's representative on the Traffic Advisory Committee
from 1962 to 1963 and from 1964 to 1965. He has been an Unofficial Justice
of the Peace since 1961. He was made an Officer of the Order of the British
Empire (0.B.E.) in the 1964 New Year Honours. He is a Member of the Advisory
Committee on Public Transport, a Member of the Tenancy Tribunal, a Member of
the Deportation and Detention Advisory Tribunal, Chairman of the City Hall
Museum and Art Gallery Select Committee of the Urban Council, and Chairman of
the Estimates Committee of the Urban Council. Born in Singapore, and educated
in Scotland and at London University where he studied economics, he joined the
Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation in 1933 and was sent to Hong Kong
three years later. He joined the Hong Kong Naval Volunteer Force (later
HKRNVR) in 1936 and was mobilised in September, 1939. For two years he was on
naval patrol duties in Hong Kong. After the surrender, he spent three and a
half years as a prisoner of war in Argyle Street and Sham Shui Po. A resident
of Hong Kong for the past 28 years, Mr. Watson calls Hong Kong his permanent
home, He has always been interested in public affairs, especially low-cost
housing, and is an advocate of an underground railway system as a solution to
Hong Kong's traffic problems.
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