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Wednesday, April 25, 1973

EMBARGOED NEWS ITEM:

Note to Editors of Newspapers, News Agencies & Broadcasting Stations

The following announcement is embargoed until 6 a.m. tomorrow (Thursday).

Publication is permitted in Hong Kong Lewspapers tomorrow (Thursday) morning, but no news agencies or overseas radio transmission of the announcement may carry the information without the embargo qualification.

On no account should local radio and television stations broadcast the item until then.

NEW APPOINMENTS TO LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL

Her Majesty The Queen has been pleased to approve the appointments

of Mr. Hilton Cheong-Leen, OBE, JP, and Mr. G.M. Sayer, JP, to be Unofficial

Members of the Legislative Council from May 1, 1973 to June 30, 1974.

The appointments are to fill the vacancies created by the retirement

of the Hon. H.J.C. Browne, OBE, JP and the death of the Hon. Mrs. Mary

WONG Wing-cheung, MBE, JP.

Mr. Cheong-Leen was first elected to the Urban Council on April 1, 1957

and is currently the Council's Vice-Chairman. He is also Chairman of the

Council's Local Administration and Resettlement Policy Select Committees,

and a member of the Estimates, Hawker Policy, Museum and Art Gallery

and Resettlement Management Select Committees. He was born in August 1922

in British Guiana (Guyana) and received his education in Georgetown, Guyana,

and La Salle College, Kowloon. He was made an Unofficial Justice of the

Peace in November 1964 and was awarded the Officer Order of the British

Empire (ORE) in December 1971.

Mr. Sayer