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Friday, August 10, 1973

MR. LI NAMED SECRETARY FOR SOCIAL SERVICES

Two senior government appointments were announced today.

Mr. F.K. Li is appointed acting Secretary for Social Services,

one of the new secretary posts recommended in the McKinsey Report, and

Mr. K..J. Topley is appointed Director of Social Welfare. Both appointments

cone into effect at the end of this month.

In his new post, Mr. Li will be responsible for policy and programmes

covering education, medical and health services, social welfare, charities,

labour and recreation,

Mr. Li, who is 51, has had a distinguished career with the Hong

Kong Government serving in a number of departments as deputy head, including

Labour and lines Departments, Commerce and Industry Department and the

Secretariat for Home Affairs. He was Deputy Financial Secretary on two

occasions and acted as Financial Secretary for a brief period in 1967.

During the course of his career he attended the Administration

Staff College at Henley and the Imperial Defence College in London. Mr. Li

holds a Master of Science degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Hr. Topley, 50, joined the government as a Cadet Officer in 1955.

He was promoted to Senior Administrative Officer in 1959 and became Assistant

Commissioner for Resettlement in the same year,

In 1963 he was appointed Assistant Colonial Secretary and the

following year became Deputy Commissioner of Labour. He joined the Census

and Statistics Department in 1967 as Deputy Commissioner and was appointed

Commissioner three years later.

Note to Editors:

Photographs of Mr. Li and Mr. Topley will

be boxed for collection this evening.

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