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Friday, July 27, 1973

MR. I.R. PRICE TO BE NEW COMMISSIONER OF LABOUR

The Deputy Commissioner of Labour, Mr. 1.R. Price, is to succeed

Mr. Paul K.C. Taui as the Commissioner of Labour, who will be going on leave

prior to retirement on September 1.

The promotion has been approved by the Secretary of State for

Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs.

Mr. Price, aged 53, joined the Malayan civil service as an administrative

officer in 1947 after seven years of war service in France, Burna and Malaya.

Almost all his service from 1947 until 1961 was with the Department

of Labour and his last appointment was Commissioner for Labour in ialaya.

He retired in 1961 under the terms of the Malayanization scheme

and became Executive Director of the Coffee Growers' Association in Kenya.

In 1965 he joined the Labour Department in Hong Kong as a Senior

Labour Officer. He was promoted to Assistant Commissioner in 1968 and to

Deputy Commissioner in 1971.

Mr. Price was awarded the Territorial Efficiency Decoration (T.D.)

in 1957 and was appointed an Official Justice of the Peace in 1971. He is

married with no children.

Mr. Price has attended the last two conferences of the International

Labour Organisation in Geneva as a technical adviser to the British government

delegation.

Note to Editors:

Copies of a photograph of Mr. Price

are boxed today.

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