MONDAY, JANUARY 23, 1978
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NEW ASSISTANT POLITICAL ADVISER ARRIVES TO TAKE UP POST ****
A FORMER FIRST SECRETARY AT THE BRITISH EMBASSY IN PEKING, MR. JAIN CAMPBELL ORR, ARRIVED IN HONG KONG TODAY (MONDAY) TO TAKE UP THE POST OF ASSISTANT POLITICAL ADVISER.
HE TAKES OVER FROM MR. CHARLES DRACE-FRANCIS, WHO LEFT HONG KONG IN EARLY DECEMBER TO JOIN THE OFFICE OF THE PERMANENT BRITISH REPRESENTATIVE TO THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY IN BRUSSELS.
MR. ORR, AGED 35, LEARNED CHINESE IN HONG KONG FROM 1969-71 AND WAS FIRST SECRETARY IN PEKING FROM 1972-74. SINCE RETURNING TO LONDON, HE HAS BEEN FIRST SECRETARY AT THE FAR EASTERN DEPARTMENT OF THE FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE.
MR. ORR MARRIED RECENTLY.
APPOINTMENT OF NEW DIRECTOR OF ACCOUNTING SERVICES
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THE DIRECTOR OF ACCOUNTING SERVICES, MR. F. CRABB, WILL LEAVE THE SERVICE OF THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT IN MARCH 1978 ON PRE- RETIREMENT LEAVE. HE WILL BE SUCCEEDED BY MR. G.D. EDEN, DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF ACCOUNTING SERVICES, WHOSE PROMOTION HAS BEEN APPROVED BY THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS.
MR. EDEN, AGED 54, FIRST JOINED THE CIVIL SERVICE AS A TREASURY ACCOUNTANT IN MAY 1961. HE WAS PROMOTED TO SENIOR TREASURY ACCOUNTANT IN NOVEMBER 1966, TO CHIEF TREASURY ACCOUNTANT IN JANUARY 1972, TO PRINCIPAL TREASURY ACCOUNTANT IN OCTOBER 1974 AND TO HIS PRESENT RANK IN MARCH 1975. MR. EDEN IS MARRIED AND HAS A SON AND A DAUGHTER.
MR. CRABB JOINED THE CIVIL SERVICE AS A MEMBER OF THE SENIOR CLERICAL AND ACCOUNTING STAFF IN NOVEMBER 1940. HE WAS APPOINTED ON TRANSFER TO THE EXECUTIVE GRADE IN JANUARY 1947 AND AS A TREASURY ACCOUNTANT IN APRIL 1960. HE WAS PROMOTED TO SENIOR ACCOUNTANT IN JUNE 1965, TO PRINCIPAL TREASURY ACCOUNTANT IN MARCH 1970, TO DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF ACCOUNTING SERVICES IN MARCH 1972, AND TO DIRECTOR OF ACCOUNTING SERVICES IN MARCH 1975. HE IS MARRIED AND HAS TWO SONS.
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