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FRIDAY, JANUARY 4, 1985
EXPLAINING THE NEED FOR THIS NEW POST, A GOVERNMENT SPOKESMAN SAID THAT THE RANGE OF RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE CHIEF SECRETARY'S POST HAD GROWN TO THE POINT WHERE ADDITIONAL ASSISTANCE WAS NOW REQUIRED BEYOND THAT PROVIDED BY THE EXISTING POLICY AND RESOURCE BRANCHES IN THE GOVERNMENT SECRETARIAT, AND THESE RESPONSIBILITIES WILL EXPAND FURTHER WITH THE DEVELOPMENT OF REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT. THE NEW POST OF DEPUTY CHIEF SECRETARY WOULD RANK EQUALLY WITH THE EXISTING POSTS OF SECRETARY, GOVERNMENT SECRETARIAT. IT WOULD PROVIDE THE CHIEF SECRETARY WITH SPECIAL ASSISTANCE ON SELECTED ISSUES OF THE DAY, AND COORDINATE THE WORK OF THE GOVERNMENT SECRETARIAT ON THESE ISSUES WHERE THEY SPAN SEVERAL BRANCHES.
THE SPOKESMAN ADDED THAT MR AKERS-JONES WILL LEAVE THE POST OF SECRETARY FOR DISTRICT ADMINISTRATION IN EARLY FEBRUARY. HE WILL ACT AS CHIEF SECRETARY FROM FEBRUARY 15 TO MARCH 2, WHILE SIR PHILIP HADDON-CAVE TAKES LOCAL LEAVE. MR AKERS-JONĖS WILL THEN BE ABSENT FROM HONG KONG UNTIL ABOUT MAY 26, FIRST ON LEAVE AND THEN FOR CONSULTATIONS IN LONDON. ON JUNE 5 HE WILL TAKE OVER AS CHIEF SECRETARY FROM SIR PHILIP, WHO WILL DEPART ON PRE- RETIREMENT LEAVE LATER THAT MONTH.
FOLLOWING ARE BRIEF BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES ON THESE OFFICERS AND A LIST OF THE SECRETARIES, GOVERNMENT SECRETARIAT.
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES
SIR PHILIP HADDON-CAVE, KBE, CMG, JP
AGED 59. AFTER SERVICE WITH THE EAST AFRICA HIGH COMMISSION, IN KENYA AND IN SEYCHELLES BETWEEN 1952 AND 1962, SIR PHILIP WAS TRANSFERRED TO THE HONG KONG CIVIL SERVICE AS A SENJOR ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICER IN DECEMBER 1962. HE SERVED INITIALLY IN THE (THEN) COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY DEPARTMENT, BECOMING DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY IN 1965. IN 1967 HE WAS POSTED TO THE THEN COLONIAL SECRETARIAT AS DEPUTY ECONOMIC SECRETARY. IN JANUARY 1969 HE BECAME DEPUTY FINANCIAL SECRETARY. FOR TEN YEARS, FROM 1971 TO 1981, SIR PHILIP WAS FINANCIAL SECRETARY. HÉ BECAME CHIEF SECRETARY (DESIGNATE) IN JULY 1981
HE HAS AND WAS APPOINTED CHIEF SECRETARY IN NOVEMBER 1981. ACTED AS GOVERNOR AND AS DEPUTY TO THE GOVERNOR ON MANY OCCASIONS SINCE THEN.
/MR DAVID