XN000022-1974-07-03 — Page 4

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WEDNESDAY, JULY 3, 1974

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SPEAKING ON BEHALF OF HIS UNOFFICIAL COLLEAGUES, DR. THE HON. CHUNG SZE-YUEN, WHO BECOMES THE SENIOR UNOFFICIAL MEMBER, SAID THE RETIRING MEMBERS WOULD BE SADLY MISSED.

HE DESCRIBED MR. WILFRED WONG AS +A MAN OF IDEAS AND OF IDEALS+ WHOSE PARTICULAR BRAND OF INDEPENDENT THOUGHT HAS A. RARE AND TREASURED QUALITY. DR. CHUNG NOTED THAT MR. WONG HAD BEEN AN EXCELLENT +OMBUDSMAN+ WHO HAD DEVOTED MUCH TIME TO PURSUING PARTICULAR GRIEVANCES WHICH GAME TO HIS ATTENTION AS A MEMBER OF UMELCO.

+HIS WIDE EXPERIENCE AND HIS GREAT HUMANITY WILL SURELY BE MISSED,+, SAID DR. CHUNG WISHING MR. WONG GOOD FORTUNE AND HAPPINESS IN THE YEARS AHEAD.

DR. CHUNG SAID THAT WHILE ALL THE RETIRING MEMBERS WOULD BE MISSED +THE GREATEST LOSS IS OF OUR FORMER LEADER MR. WOO PAK-CHUEN.+

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+HIS ENORMOUS KNOWLEDGE OF LEGISLATION, HIS ABILITY TO WORK AT BREAKNECK SPEED AND HIS WIDE INTEREST IN A VAST RANGE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS WILL BE SADLY MISSED,+ DR. CHUNG SAID. 450 WILL HIS BRISK CHAIRMANSHIP OF THE MEETINGS OF THE UNOFFICIAL MEMBERS HELD IN THE UMELCO OFFICE.+ IT WAS AT UMELCO MEETINGS, RATHER THAN IN COUNCIL, THAT MR. WOO HAD SHOWN HIS ROLE AS BOTH +WHIP+ AND LEADER OF THE UNOFFICIALS, SAID DR. CHUNG.

REFERRING TO MR. SZETO WAI, MR, ANN TSE-KAI AND MR. G.M. SAYER, HE SAID THAT WHILE THE IR GREAT KNOWLEDGE OF LOCAL AFFAIRS WOULD CONTINUE TO BE PUT TO GOOD USE IN THE EXECUTIVE COUNCIL, THE GAP CAUSED BY THEIR RETIREMENT FROM THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL WOULD NOT BE EASY TO FILL.

OF HIS OWN APPOINTMENT AS SENIOR UNOFFICIAL MEMBER, DR. CHUNG SAID HE REGARDED IT AS AN HONOUR AND A CHALLENGE BUT ADDED HE WAS ALSO CONSCIOUS OF HIS SHORTCOMINGS. NEVERTHELESS, HE WOULD DO HIS. BEST TO SERVE IN THE POSITION.

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