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DAILY INFORMATION BULLETIN
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1975.
NEW DIRECTOR OF HOME AFFAIRS APPOINTED
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THE APPOINTMENT WAG ANNOUNCED TODAY OF MR. JOHN WALDEN AS DIRECTOR OF HOME AFFAIRS, HE WILL TAKE UP HIS NEW POST EARLY IN THE NEW YEAR.
MR. WALDEN, 50, SUCCEEDS KR. E.P. HO, WHO IS TO ATTEND A- YEAR-LONG ROYAL COLLEGE OF DEFENCE STUDIES COURSE IN LONDCI!. COURSE J'EGINS OF JANUAR ' 13.
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AFTER GRADUATING FROM OXFORD UNIVERSITY, MR. WALDEN JOINED THE HONG KONG GOVERMENT AS A CADET OFFICER IN 1951. LE SPENT A YEAR STUDYING CANTONESE AT TE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG AND SINCE THEN HAS HELD A NUMBER OF PC TS INCLUDING ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR CHIN AFFAIRS, ASSISTANT DIRETOR OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY AND DEPUTY COMPHUSİONER FOR THE NE TERRITORIES,
IN 1972 HE WAS APP FOLLOWING YEAR WAS MADE HELD SINCE.
INTED COMMISSIONER FOR RESETTLEMENT AND THE
EPUTY DIRECTOR OF HOUSING, A POST HE HAS
MR. HO IS ONE OF ONLY A HANDFUL OF SENIOR GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL TO ATTEND THE PRESTIGIOUS ROYAL COLLEGE OF DEFENCE STUDIES COURSE. THE COURSE EMBRACES NOST ASPECTS OF MODERN PUBLIC POLICY, INCLUDIAN
UCH SULJECTS AS INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, FCONOMICS, NANAGENT, AND SOCIAL AND TECHNOLO ICAL PROBLES.
SENIOR REPRESENTATIVES FROM A NUMBER OF COUNTRIES ARE INVITED TO ATTEND, THE COURS EACH YEAR.
THE GOVERNM NT CON IDERS THE COURSE PROVIDES VALUABLE TRAINING FOR SENIOR OFFICIALS TO IVE THEM AN INSIGHT INTO THE FUCH IDER FIELD OF INTERNATIONALLATIONS.
MR. HO, 48, WAS EDI 'ATED AT ST. JOSEPH'S COLLEGE AND THE HONE TONG UNIVERSITY. ON GR: UATING II! 1950, HE WAS SELECTED FOR TRAINING
IN THE WITED KINGDOM U ER THE COLONIAL WELFARE AND
EVELOPA, IT SCHEME. HEETURNED TO HONG KONG IN 1954 TO JOIN THE INLAND REVENUE DEPARTMENT.
IN 1957, HE TRANSFERRED TO THE ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICE, AND SERVED WITH THE FINANCE RANCH OF THE SECRETARIAT, THE AGRICULTURAL AND FISHERIES DEPARTMENT AND THE COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY DEPARTMENT
EFORE FECOMING DIRECTOR OF HOME APPAIRS IN OCTOBER 1973.
LOTE TO EDITORS: COPIES OF A PHOTOGRAPH OF MR. WALDEN ARE AVAILAELL
FOR COLLECTION FROM THE G.I.S. PRESS ROOM ON THE SIXTH FLOOR OF DEACONSFIELD HOUSE.
Issued by Government Information Services, Beaconsfield-House, Hong Kong. Tel: 5-233191
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