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Monday, November 12, 1973
NEW GOVERNMENT APPOINTMENT
Mr. L.. Davies, C.M.G., O.B.E., will be arriving in Hong Kong
shortly to take up appointment as an Administrative Officer.
An experienced administrator, Mr. Davies is 51 years of age
and has been in the Colonial Service since 1948. He has spent much
of his career in the Western Pacific, having been Financial Secretary
of the Western Pacific High Commission from 1962 to 1965 and Chief
Secretary from 1965 to 1970.
He was appointed Deputy Governor of the Bahamas in 1970,
where he served until the territory's recent independence.
Ir. Davies, who is a widower, will carry out a familiarisation
programme on his arrival, and will initially be attached to the Environment
Branch of the Colonial Secretariat.
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