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WEDNESDAY, JULY 31, 1974

TRIBUTE TO LATE HON. DHUN RUTTONJEE

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THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY PAID ITS LAST TRIBUTE TO THE LATE HON. DHUN RUTTONJEE, A FORMER MEMBER WHO HAD SERVED IN THE COUNCIL WITH GREAT DISTINCTION FOR 15 YEARS - THE LONGEST PERIOD OF SERVICE OF ANY MEMBERS SINCE THE WAR.

THE ACTING GOVERNOR, MR. DENYS ROBERTS, SAID AT TODAY'S COUNCIL MEETING THAT THOSE WHO WERE PRIVILEGED TO HAVE KNOWN HIM WOULD REMEMBER HIM AS +A WISE AND TOLERANT MAN, FIRM IN HIS OPINIONS AND COURAGEOUS IN THE DEFENCE OF HIS PRINCIPLES.+

+HE WAS INVARIABLY COURTEOUS AND GOOD HUMOURED WHATEVER THE PRESSURES AND HE ATTRACTED AND HELD THE FRIENDSHIP OF MEN AND WOMEN OF ALL RACES,+ HE SAID.

THE GOVERNOR DESCRIBED HIM AS A HONG KONG MAN, EXPERIENCED IN ITS PROBLEMS, DEVOTED TO ITS VELFARE, AND DEDICATED TO ITS SUCCESS.+

+ IN THE TURBULENT DAYS OF 1967,+ HE WENT ON, THE SET AN EXAMPLE OF COURAGE, LEADERSHIP AND FAITH IN THE FUTURE OF HONG KONG WHICH WERE OF AN ESTEEMABLE WORTH.

+WE OFFER OUR SYMPATHY TO HIS WIDOW AND FAMILY AND HOPE THAT THEY MAY TAKE CONSOLATION FROM THE CERTAINTY THAT THIS WAS A GOOD MAN WHO LED A FINE LIFE AND WILL LONG BE REMEMBERED BY THE COMMUNITY WITH AFFECTION AND RESPECT.+

SPEAKING ON BEHALF OF HIS UNOFFICIAL COLLEAGUES, DR. THE HON. CHUNG SZE-YUEN NOTED THAT MR. RUTTONJEE WAS +A VERY SPECIAL TYPE OF PERSON.+

HE WAS

DR. CHUNG SAID: HE WAS A MAN OF ACHIEVEMENT, A MAN OF HONOUR, A MAN OF COMPASSION AND A MAN OF MORAL COURAGE. VERY OUT-SPOKEN AND AT TIMES VERY CONTROVERSIAL.

+ THE LATE MR. RUTTONJEE WAS IN THE VANGUARD OF THE ANTI- TUBERCULOSIS MOVEMENT IN HONG KONG. HIS PERSONAL EFFORT AND PHILANTHROPY CONTRIBUTED VERY SUBSTANTIALLY TO OUR PRESENT ABILITY TO CONTROL THIS DISEASE.

+HIS OUTSTANDING WORK IN THIS COUNCIL, HIS SIGNIFICANT CONTRIBUTION TOWARDS THE WELL-BEING OF THIS COMMUNITY, AND HIS PERSONAL STYLE AS EXEMPLIFIED BY THE COLOURFUL 'TIGER ORCHID' HE USUALLY WORE ON HIS LAPEL WILL LONG BE REMEMBERED BY HIS FRIENDS AND THE PEOPLE OF HONG KONG,+ HE ADDED.

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