TUESDAY, AUGUST 14, 1990
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COMMISSIONER OF CORRECTIONAL SERVICES TO RETIRE
THE GOVERNMENT ANNOUNCED TODAY (TUESDAY) THAT MR CHAN WA-SHEK, COMMISSIONER OF CORRECTIONAL SERVICES, WILL BE RETIRING FROM PUBLIC SERVICE IN DECEMBER THIS YEAR.
POLICE, WILL
MR F.S. MCCOSH, SENIOR ASSISTANT COMMISSIONER OF SUCCEED MR CHAN AS COMMISSIONER OF CORRECTIONAL SERVICES ON MR CHAN'S RETIREMENT.
FOLLOWING ARE BRIEF
BIOGRAPHICAL
MR MCCOSH:
MR CHAN WA-SHEK, ISO, JP
NOTES ON MR CHAN AND
AGED 59. MR CHAN JOINED THE HONG KONG CIVIL SERVICE AS A WARDER IN THE THEN PRISONS DEPARTMENT IN 1951. HE WAS PROMOTED ΤΟ DEPUTY COMMISSIONER IN 1980 AND ΤΟ COMMISSIONER OF CORRECTIONAL
SERVICES IN 1985.
ON HIS RETIREMENT, MR CHAN WILL HAVE COMPLETED 39 YEARS OF SERVICE WITH THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT.
MR F.S. MCCOSH, QPM, CPM
AGED 52. MR MCCOSH JOINED THE HONG KONG CIVIL SERVICE AS A PROBATIONARY SUB-INSPECTOR OF POLICE IN 1958.
HE WAS PROMOTED TO ASSISTANT COMMISSIONER OF POLICE IN 1983
AND TO SENIOR ASSISTANT COMMISSIONER OF POLICE IN 1988.
SINCE HIS PROMOTION TO HIS PRESENT RANK, HE HAS HELD THE OFFICE OF DIRECTOR OF MANAGEMENT AND INSPECTION SERVICES.
GOVT ALIVE TO TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT OBSTACLES
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THE GOVERNMENT IS ALIVE TO OBSTACLES TO TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT, THE ACTING DIRECTOR OF INDUSTRY, MR WILFRED WONG, SAID THIS (TUESDAY) EVENING.
MR WONG WAS SPEAKING ON "IS HONG KONG IN THE RACE OF INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY ADVANCEMENT?" AT A DINNER MEETING OF CLUB OF THE NEW TERRITORIES.
THE LIONS
/HE SAID: