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Friday, October 26, 1973

MR. LIAO APPOINTED DIRECTOR OF HOUSING

New senior appointments in the Housing Department are announced

in today's (Friday) gazette.

Mr. Donald Liao becomes Director of Housing while Mr. J.C.C.Walden

and lir. F.J. Carroll become Deputy Directors.

These moves follow the recent re-organisation of the Colonial

Secretariat as a result of which the Secretary for Housing now heads the

Housing Branch of the Colonial Secretariat, but is no longer responsible

for the day to day management of the department.

Mr. Liao has had a long association with public housing in Hong

Kong. He joined the former Housing Authority as an architect in 1960 and

became the first local officer to be appointed to the post of Commissioner,

He was largely responsible for the development of Hong Kong's biggest

low-cost housing estate, Wah Fu near Aberdeen.

Mr. Liao, who is 43, is a member of the Town Planning Board and

remains Vice Chairman of the Housing Authority.

Mr. Walden has served in a number of senior posts in the government,

including Assistant Director of Commerce and Industry, Assistant Establishment

Officer, Deputy Commissioner New Territories, Assistant Director of Urban

Services, and Commissioner for Resettlement.

He is 48.

Mr. Carroll, 47, worked in the Housing Division of the Urban Services

Department for ten years. He took up the post of Housing Manager in 1962 and

was promoted to Chief Housing Manager and later to Assistant Commissioner for

Housing.

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