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URBCO SECRETARY RETIRING

Tuesday, July 31, 1973

Mr. J.A.M. Tinson, Secretary of the Urban Council is retiring from

government service shortly.

To mark the occasion, Mr. D.R.W. Alexander, Director of Urban

Services Department will present him with a memento on behalf of friends

and colleagues at a ceremony to be held in the Urban Council Chamber at

p.m. on Thursday (August 2).

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Mr. Tinson joined the government as a clerk in 1948. He was

transferred to the Executive Grade in 1950, and in July 1967, was promoted

to his present rank of Chief Executive Officer.

During his long career, he has served in the Commerce & Industry

Department, Radio Hong Kong, Registration of Persons Office and the Hong

Kong Housing Authority, and in certain instances outside the executive grade

as Trade Officer and Commissioner of Registration.

He has been Secretary of the Urban Council since 1965, apart from

a short break in 1971 when he acted as Assistant Director (Cleansing) of

the Urban Services Department. Mr. Tinson has played an important part

over the years in the Council's deliberations and achievements.

More recently, he helped prepare the new legislation and administrative

procedures which paved the way for the Urban Council to become financially

autonomous.

Note to Editors:

You are invited to send a reporter and/or photographer to cover the presentation ceremony at 4 p.m. on Thursday in the Urban Council Chamber on the 12th floor of Central Government Offices, West Wing.

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