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十七 香港政府

GIS 新聞處

DAILY INFORMATION BULLETIN

Sunday, December 31, 1972

EMBARGOED NEWS ITEM:

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NOTE TO EDITORS OF NEWSPAPERS

NEWS AGENCIES, BROADCASTING

STATIONS:

The following announcement

regarding the New Year Honours List is being made simultaneously in

London at 0030 hours G.H.T. on January 1.

Publication is permitted in

Hong Kong newspapers tomorrow (Monday) morning, but no news agency or overseas radio transmission of the announcement may carry the information without the enbargo qualification.

The news may be broadcast from 7 a.m. onwards over the local radio and television stations tomorrow.

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

Kt. (Knight Bachelor)

NEV YER HONOURS LIST

Hr. David Ronald Holmes, C.M.G., C.B.E., M.C., E.D., J.P.

Mr. Holmes retired in late 1971 from his post as Secretary for Home

Affairs and is now the Chairman of the Public Services Commission. Mr. Holmes

joined the Hong Kong Government as a Cadet Officer in 1938. During his 34 years

of service, he was attached to a number of principal Government departments

including Resettlement, the New Territories Administration, Commerce and Industry

and Urban Services. He acted as Colonial Secretary on a number of occasions and

/was

Issued by Government Information Services, Beaconsfield House, Hong Kong. Tel: 5-233191

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