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an Associate Member of the Institution of Structural Engineers. As Deputy

Director of Public Works (Engineering), he served on the Tender Board and was

Vice-Chairman of the Town Planning Board. He was a Member of the Committee

appointed by the Council of the University of Hong Kong in 1954 to consider

engineering education at the University following the Report of Sir Ivor

Jennings and Mr. D.W. Logan.

The Hon. P.C.M. Sedgwick

Mr. Patrick Cardinall Mason Sedgwick, who is Commissioner of Labour,

joined the Hong Kong Government as a Cadet Officer in July, 1935. He was

Attache at the British Embassy in Chungking from May, 1942 to October, 1943.

He was attached to the Hong Kong Planning Unit of the Colonial Office from

January, 1944 to August, 1945. On the British re-occupation of Hong Kong, he

was attached to the Secretariat, Headquarters of the Civil Affairs Unit of the

Military Administration. In May, 1946, he was appointed Assistant Financial

Secretary. He became Clerk of Councils and then Acting Principal Assistant

Colonial Secretary later in the same month. He was appointed Secretary of the

Salaries Commission in March, 1947 and Establishment Officer in October of the

same year.

He was Acting Chairman of the Urban Council in May, 1948, Acting

Deputy Colonial Secretary five months later, and Deputy Director, Commerce and

Industry in August, 1951. He served as Acting Director of Commerce and

Industry in September, 1951 and was promoted to Cadet Officer, Class I in

January, 1952, when he was appointed Director of Commerce and Industry. He

became Deputy Commissioner of Labour in February, 1954. He was Acting

Political Adviser for a short period before he was appointed Chairman of the

Urban Council and Director of Urban Services in September, 1954. Returning to

the Labour Department, he became Deputy Commissioner of Labour and Deputy

Commissioner of Mines in March, 1955 and Commissioner of Labour and

Commissioner of Mines three months later. He served as Acting Secretary for

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