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Friday, June 14, 1974

M.B.E. (Member Order of the British Empire)

Mr. Francis Xavier Loo Khin-leng

Mr. Loo is the Chairman of the Hong Kong Life Guard Club,

which was formed by him in 1956. It is largely due to his early personal

efforts that life-saving is now taught in many schools in Hong Kong.

M.B.E. (Member Order of the British Empire)

Mr. William John MacDonald

Mr. MacDonald is the Highways Superintendent of the Public

Works Department. During the rainstorm emergencies of 1966 he gave

unfailing support over extended periods and again in the summer of

1972 whon ho took charge of a greater part of the practical organisation

set up to reinstate the Hong Kong highway system, severely disrupted by

massive landslips resulting from days of continuous rain.

M.B.E. (iember Order of the British Empire)

Mr. Arthur Patrick Richardson

Mr. Richardson is currently Deputy Director of Urban Services.

He joined the Hong Kong Government as a Cadet in 1950, and has served

in the Colonial Secretariat, New Territories Administration, the Police

Force, and in the Social Welfare, Agriculture and Fisheries and Labour

Departments. He has also acted on several occasions as Director of

Agriculture and Fisheries, Commissioner of Labour and Director of Urban

Services.

/M.B.E