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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1986
APPOINTMENT OF NEW CS ANNOUNCED
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THE GOVERNMENT ANNOUNCED TODAY THAT THE CHIEF SECRETARY, SIR DAVID AKERS-JONES, WILL BE RETIRING FROM THE CIVIL SERVICE IN JUNE 1987. SIR DAVID, WHO HAS SERVED IN HONG KONG SINCE 1957, WILL BE 60 ON APRIL 14.
THE SECRETARY OF STATE HAS APPROVED THE APPOINTMENT OF
MR DAVID FORD TO SUCCEED SIR DAVID AS CHIEF SECRETARY. MR FORD IS PRESENTLY THE SECRETARY FOR THE CIVIL SERVICE.
FOLLOWING ARE BRIEF BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES ON SIR DAVID AND
MR FORD:
SIR DAVID AKERS-JONES KBE CMG JP
AGED 59. AFTER SERVICE IN MALAYA BETWEEN 1953 AND 1957. SIR DAVID WAS TRANSFERRED TO THE HONG KONG CIVIL SERVICE AS A CADET OFFICER CLASS 11 IN JULY 1957. BETWEEN 1960 AND 1969 HE SERVED AS A DISTRICT OFFICER, IN TSUEN WAN, ISLANDS, AND YUEN LONG DISTRICTS, AND LATER AS DEPUTY DISTRICT COMMISSIONER IN THE NEW TERRITORIES ADMINISTRATION. AFTER SERVICE IN THE LANDS BRANCH OF THE GOVERNMENT SECRETARIAT BETWEEN 1969 AND 1973 HE BECAME DISTRICT COMMISSIONER NEW TERRITORIES AND LATER SECRETARY FOR THE NEW TERRITORIES IN NOVEMBER 1973. ON THE FORMATION OF THE CITY AND NEW TERRITORIES ADMINISTRATION HE BECAME ITS FIRST SECRETARY IN DECEMBER 1981, THE TITLE OF THE POST BEING CHANGED LATER TO ITS PRESENT DESIGNATION OF SECRETARY FOR DISTRICT ADMINISTRATION. SIR DAVID WAS APPOINTED AS CHIEF SECRETARY IN JUNE 1985.
MR DAVID FORD LVO OBE JP
AGED 51. MR FORD JOINED THE HONG KONG CIVIL SERVICE AS DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF INFORMATION SERVICES IN JUNE 1972, AND WAS APPOINTED AS DIRECTOR OF INFORMATION SERVICES IN SEPTEMBER 1972. AFTER A SECONDMENT TO THE UNITED KINGDOM GOVERNMENT COMMENCING IN JANUARY 1977, HE RETURNED TO HONG KONG AS SECRETARY FOR INFORMATION IN JANUARY 1979. HE THEN SERVED AS COMMISSIONER LONDON OFFICE BETWEEN JULY 1980 AND DECEMBER 1981, AFTER WHICH HE ATTENDED A COURSE AT THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF DEFENCE STUDIES. HE WAS APPOINTED AS DIRECTOR OF HOUSING IN JULY 1983 AND AS SECRETARY FOR HOUSING IN FEBRUARY 1985, AND BECAME SECRETARY FOR THE CIVIL SERVICE IN OCTOBER 1985. MR FORD WAS PROMOTED TO HIS PRESENT RANK OF SECRETARY, GOVERNMENT SECRETARIAT IN JANUARY 1986.
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