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Wednesday, April 25, 1973
EMBARGOED NEWS ITEM:
Note to Editors of Newspapers, News Agencies & Broadcasting Stations
The following announcement is embargoed until 6 a.m. tomorrow (Thursday).
Publication is permitted in Hong Kong Lewspapers tomorrow (Thursday) morning, but no news agencies or overseas radio transmission of the announcement may carry the information without the embargo qualification.
On no account should local radio and television stations broadcast the item until then.
NEW APPOINMENTS TO LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL
Her Majesty The Queen has been pleased to approve the appointments
of Mr. Hilton Cheong-Leen, OBE, JP, and Mr. G.M. Sayer, JP, to be Unofficial
Members of the Legislative Council from May 1, 1973 to June 30, 1974.
The appointments are to fill the vacancies created by the retirement
of the Hon. H.J.C. Browne, OBE, JP and the death of the Hon. Mrs. Mary
WONG Wing-cheung, MBE, JP.
Mr. Cheong-Leen was first elected to the Urban Council on April 1, 1957
and is currently the Council's Vice-Chairman. He is also Chairman of the
Council's Local Administration and Resettlement Policy Select Committees,
and a member of the Estimates, Hawker Policy, Museum and Art Gallery
and Resettlement Management Select Committees. He was born in August 1922
in British Guiana (Guyana) and received his education in Georgetown, Guyana,
and La Salle College, Kowloon. He was made an Unofficial Justice of the
Peace in November 1964 and was awarded the Officer Order of the British
Empire (ORE) in December 1971.
Mr. Sayer