TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1983
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GOVERNOR KEEPING BUSY PUBLIC COMMITMENTS
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THE GOVERNOR, SIR EDWARD YOUDE, HAS A BUSY SCHEDULE OF PUBLIC FUNCTIONS BEFORE HE LEAVES FOR PEKING TO CONTINUE WITH THE SINO-BRITISH TALKS ON NOVEMBER 14 AND 15.
IT STARTS WITH TWO FUNCTIONS ON FRIDAY (NOVEMBER 11) WHEN SIR EDWARD WILL OPEN THE LABOUR DEPARTMENT'S ANNUAL CAREERS EXHIBITION AT THE CITY HALL CONCERT HALL AT 3 PM, AND THE ROAD SAFETY RALLY AT QUEEN ELIZABETH STADIUM AT 5.15 PM.
ON THE FOLLOWING DAY (NOVEMBER 12), THE GOVERNOR WILL OFFICIATE AT TWO OPENING CEREMONIES IN TUEN MUN. HE WILL FIRST OPEN THE YAN OI TONG COMMUNITY AND INDOOR SPORTS CENTRE AT 4.45 PM AND THEN THE 1983 TUEN MUN FESTIVAL AT YAN 01 TOWN SQUARE AT 6.15 PM.
ON SUNDAY (NOVEMBER 13), THE GOVERNOR WILL ATTEND THE REMEMBRANCE DAY CEREMONY AT THE CENOTAPH IN CENTRAL, STARTING AT 10.30 AM, SIR EDWARD WILL LEAVE FOR PEKING AT 12.45 PM THE SAME DAY.
NEW BRITISH AMBASSADOR TO PEKING
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THE FOLLOWING ANNOUNCEMENT HAS JUST BEEN MADE IN LONDON:
THE QUEEN HAS BEEN PLEASED TO APPROVE THE APPOINTMENT OF MR R.M. EVANS, CMG, TO BE H.M. AMBASSADOR TO THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA IN SUCCESSION TO SIR PERCY CRADOCK, GCMG WHO, AFTER RETIRING FROM THE DIPLOMATIC SERVICE WILL BE TAKING UP FURTHER GOVERNMENTAL DUTIES, AS ALREADY ANNOUNCED ON 26 SEPTEMBER 1983.
THE FOLLOWING BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES ARE FOR YOUR REFERENCE :
MR RICHARD (MARK) EVANS WAS BORN ON 15 APRIL 1928 IN BELIZE (THEN BRITISH HONDURAS), WHILE HIS FATHER WAS SERVING THERE AS A MEMBER OF THE COLONIAL SERVICE. HE WAS EDUCATED AT THE DRAGON SCHOOL. OXFORD, REPTON SCHOOL AND MAGDALEN COLLEGE, OXFORD, WHERE HE GAINED AN HONOURS DEGREE IN MODERN HISTORY. FROM 1950 TO 1952 HE DID ARMY SERVICE, COMMISSIONED IN THE DUKE OF CORNWALL'S LIGHT INFANTRY.
1952 HE JOINED THE FOREIGN OFFICE RESEARCH DEPARTMENT AND TWO YEARS LATER BEGAN A FULL-TIME COURSE OF CHINESE LANGUAGE STUDY. HE FIRST HAD A YEAR AT THE SCHOOL OF ORIENTAL AND AFRICAN STUDIES IN LONDON AND THEN WENT TO PEKING, IN 1955, INITIALLY AS A LANGUAGE STUDENT AND LATER AS THIRD SECRETARY AT THE EMBASSY. HE WAS THEN APPOINTED TO ATOMIC ENERGY AND DISARMAMENT DEPARTMENT AND DURING THAT TOUR OF DUTY WAS ASSIGNED TO THE NUCLEAR TESTS CONFERENCE IN GENEVA. IN 1961 HE WAS MOVED TO SOUTH-EAST ASIA DEPARTMENT.
VIN 1962,