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TUESDAY, JUNE 24, 1975

FORMER DIRECTOR OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY DIES

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NEWS WAS RECEIVED FROM LONDON THIS (TUESDAY) MORNING OF THE DEATH OF MR. TERENCE DARE SORBY, CBE, FORMERLY DIRECTOR OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY AND EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE HONG KONG TRADE DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL.

MR. SORBY DIED AT HIS HOME IN EDENBRIDGE, ENGLAND ON SATURDAY (JUNE 21) MORNING. HE WAS 57. HE IS SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE AND FOUR CHILDREN, TWO SONS AND TWO DAUGHTERS.

FUNERAL SERVICE WILL TAKE PLACE AT ST. LAWRENCE'S

CATHOLIC CHURCH, EDENBRIDGE, KENT, ENGLAND ON SATURDAY (JUNE 28).

MR. SORBY JOINED THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT SERVICE IN 1946 AS AN ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICER, HE WAS FIRST APPOINTED TO THE COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY DEPARTMENT IN 1953 AND WAS ASSOCIATED WITH THAT DEPARTMENT FOR MOST OF HIS 24 YEARS WITH THE GOVERNMENT.

HE ALSO HELD THE POST OF COMMISSIONER OF LABOUR AND MINES AND SERVED ON THE TRADE AND INDUSTRY ADVISORY BOARD, TEXTILES ADVISORY BOARD AND ON THE PRODUCTIVITY COUNCIL.

MR. SORBY WAS APPOINTED DIRECTOR OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY IN 1966, A POST HE HELD UNTIL HIS RETIREMENT IN 1970. DURING HIS FOUR YEARS OF SERVICE IN THAT POST, HE WAS LARGELY RESPONSIBLE FOR THE EXPANSION OF THE DEPARTMENT AND PLAYED A PROMINENT ROLE IN THE SETTING UP OF THE TRADE DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL. THE HONG KONG PRODUCTIVITY CENTRE AND THE HONG KONG EXPORT CREDIT INSURANCE CORPORATION.

FOLLOWING HIS RETIREMENT THAT SAME YEAR, MR. SORBY BECAME EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF HONG KONG TRADE DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL UNTIL SEPTEMBER, 1973 WHEN HE RETIRED. HE WAS AWARDED THE CBE IN JUNE, 1973.

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