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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 14, 1974
COYERNOR PAYS TRIBUTE TO RETIRING LEGISLATIVE COUNCILLORS
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THE GOVERNOR, SIR MURRAY MACLEHOSE PAID TRIBUTE TO TWO RETIRING MEMBERS OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL AT ITS FINAL SITTING THIS CUEDNESDAY AFTERNOON.
THE MEMBERS WERE MR. JACK CANNING, DIRECTOR OF EDUCATION, AND MR. DAVID ALEXANDER, DIRECTOR OF URBAN SERVICES.
HE COMMENDED THE TWO MENDERS FOR THEIR +VERY DISTINCTIVE AND CONSIDERADLE CONTRIBUTIONS+ TO EOTH TIE COUNCIL AND TO THE GOVERNMENT.
SIR HURRAY SAID: +WHEN WE KEET AGAIN, WE WILL DO SO WITHOUT TWO HEISERS WHO HAVE BEEN WITH US FOR SEVERAL YEARS, MR. CANNING AND MR. ALEXANDER. EOTH HAVE IZDE VERY DISTINCTIVE AND CONSIDERABLE CONTRIBUTIONS TO THIS COUNCIL AND, INDEED, TO THE GOVERNMENT OF HONG KONG.
+1 THINK THAT ER. CARING'S NAME WILL BE ASSOCIATED WITH THE VERY RAPID EXPANSION CF EDUCATIONAL FACILITIES WHICH HAS TAKEN PLACE DURING HIS DIRECTORSHIP. I. ALEXANDER'S MANE VILL BE ASSOCIATED, I AM CURE, BOTH WITH THE RE-CONSTITUTION OF THE URBAN COUNCIL AND WITH THE KEEP HONG KONG CLEAN CAMPAIGN -- AN EVENT WHICH HAS MADE HISTORY IN HONG KONG IN OUR WAYS.
+HR. CANNING VILL BE LEAVING HONG KONG ON RETIREKENT VERY SOON. KR. ALEXANDER WILL BE DOING SO EARLY EXT YEAR. 1 A! SURE THAT ALL MEMBERS VILL JOIN HE IN VISHING THEN THE BEST OF SUCCESS AND HAPPINESS ON THEIR RETIREMENT.
SPEAKING ON EEHALF OF THE UNOFFICIAL MEMBERS, THE HON. DR. CHUNG SAID: +ON BEHALF OF MY UNOFFICIAL COLLEAGUES, I RISE TO ASSOCIATE MYSELF WITH THE BENARKS UNICH YOU, SIR, HAVE MADE ON THE RETIREMENT OF MY TWO HONOURADLE FRICIOS, 13. J. CARING AND K3. D.R.V. ALEXANDER, AFTER THEIR LONG AND DISTINGUISHED SERVICES IN HONG KONG.
+1 ALSO EXTEND OUR BEST VISIES TO THEN FOR THEIR CONTINUOUS SUCCESS, GOOD HEALTH AND HAPPINESS FOR HALY, MANY YEARS TO COME.
+THANK YOU, SIR.+
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