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NEW DIRECTOR OF AUDIT APPOINTED
Thursday, May 3, 1973
Hong Kong's new Director of Audit will be Mr. G.E. Lyth.
He will succeed Mr. P.T. Warr, who will be going on leave prior to
retirement in August this year.
Mr. Lyth, currently the Deputy Director of Audit, is 51. He joined
the Inland Revneue Department of the United Kingdom Civil Service in 1938.
During the war, he served in the Middle East as a Major in the Royal Artillery
and in Eritrea in the Sudan Camel Corps.
After the war he was transferred to the Overseas Audit Service
and worked in Malaya and Kenya before being posted to Hong Kong in 1961. He
was made Assistant Director of Audit in 1965 and promoted to his present
post in 1970,
Mr. Lyth, whose appointment has been approved by the Secretary of
State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, was made an official Justice of
the Peace in 1969. He is married with no children.
Mr. J.C. Hobbs will succeed Mr. Lyth as Deputy Director.
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