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INFORMATION SERVICES

DAILY INFORMATION BULLETIN

Thursday, December 8th, 1960

/ Canton Railway. PRESENTATION OF INSIGNIA AT GOVERNMENT HOUSE

4/12/6

The following is the list of citations at today's ceremony of

Presentation of Insignia at Government House:

MR. J.J. CONPERTHWAITE

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·0.B.E. (Civil)

Mr. Cowperthwaite has carried out very important duties in the

financial and economic branches of the Administration, particularly since

1955. He has acted as Financial Secretary and Director of Commerce &

Industry and has held the substantive post of Deputy Financial Secretary

since November, 1956. He has represented Hong Kong abroad at a number of

Conferences dealing with economic and commercial problems. His ability is

exceptional and he has, in consequence been called on to carry additional

responsibilities from time to time and he has done so with success.

PROFESSOR F.S. DRAKE - 0.B.E. (Civil)

For over forty years Professor Drake has devoted himself to active

academic work in China, and, during the last ten years, he has been mainly

instrumental in building up the Department of Chinese and the Institute of

Oriental Studies in the University of Hong Kong to its present standard of

ominence in the scholastic world. With his knowledge of Chinese and his

fine scholarship, he and the scholars he has attracted to his school are

making a very valuable contribution to the study and preservation of Chinese

culture in Hong Kong.

DR. THE HONOURABLE A.M. RODRIGUES 0.B.E. (Civil)

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Dr. Rodrigues has been a leading member of the Portuguese community

He has served as a nominated member of Urban Council, was

for many years.

an Unofficial Member of Legislative Council for six years until Juno, 1959,

/and has

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