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LOON CANTON

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ANG GOVERNMENT

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DATLY INFORMATION

IMPORTANT NOTE TO EDITORS AND NEWS AGENCIES:

BULLETIN

Monday, December 31, 1962

On NO account should any of the undermentioned persons be contacted for interviews or for information relative to their careers or be approached in any other way in connection with their awards before these have been publicly announced.

The information relating to the Honours is strictly embargoed and there must be NO announcement, either in the press or radio broadcast, before the morning of Tuesday, January 1, 1963.

HONG KONG RECIPIENTS OF NEW YEAR HONOURS

CIVIL LIST

C.B.E. (Civil)

Commander Order of the British Empire)

Mr. Cuthbert Janes Norman, Commissioner of Prisons

Mr. C.J. Norman joined the Prisons Service in Hong Kong in 1941 as

He was appointed Acting Superintendent

Assistant Superintendent of Prisons.

of Prisons in the same year. On the outbreak of hostilities in December,

1941 Mr. Norman was mobilised as a Lieutenant in the Hong Kong Volunteer

Defence Corps and was promoted to the post of Captain before the fall of Hong

Kong. He was interned at Stanley during the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong.

Mr. Norman was appointed Acting Commissioner of Prisons after the

war from August 25 to October 28, 1945. Bo served as Aoting Commissioner

on two other occasions in 1951 and 1952 and has been Commissioner of Prisons

since the beginning of 1953.

/0.B.E. (Civil)

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