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TUESDAY, MARCH 23, 1973

DORWARD TAKES UP NEW POST

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MR. BILL DORWARD HAS RETURNED TO HONG KONG TO TAKE UP HIS NEW POST OF DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY (INDUSTRY AND ADMINISTRATION) AND CONCURRENTLY OF DEPUTY COMMISSIONER OF PREVENTIVE SERVICE.

HE HAS BEEN IN GENEVA SINCE JULY 1974 AS COUNSELLOR FOR HONG KONG AFFAIRS IN THE BRITISH MISSION DURING WHICH TIME HE SERVED AS A MEMBER OF THE EIGHT-MAN TEXTILES SURVEILLANCE BODY (TSB) WHICH OVERSEES THE WORKINGS OF THE GATT ARRANGEMENT REGARDING INTERNATIONAL TRADE IN TEXTILES.

PRIOR TO SERVICE IN GENEVA, MR. DORWARD HELD THE POST OF DEPUTY DIRECTOR (COMMERCIAL RELATIONS). HIS NEW POST WAS VACATED LAST SEPTEMBER BY THE FORMER DEPUTY DIRECTOR,

MR. JIMMY MCGREGOR, WHO LEFT THE DEPARTMENT ON RETIREMENT AND HAS SINCE JOINED THE HONG KONG GENERAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AS ITS DIRECTOR.

MR. ROY PORTER WHO ACTED IN THE POST IN THE INTERIM, IS NOW ON HOME LEAVE, IN THE COURSE OF WHICH HE WILL BE LEADING AN INDUSTRIAL PROMOTION MISSION TO SWITZERLAND AND GERMANY IN MAY TO TRY AND ATTRACT OVERSEAS INDUSTRIALISTS TO HONG KONG.

GOVERNMENT'S FIRST LORRY PARK ****

THE GOVERNMENT WILL OPEN ITS FIRST LORRY PARK NEXT WEEK IN KOWLOON.

A TRANSPORT DEPARTMENT SPOKESMAN SAID TODAY THAT THE LORRY PARK, AT HO MAN TIN, WILL BE OPEN FROM 8 A.M. NEXT MONDAY (MARCH 29). IT IS LOCATED AT THE JUNCTION OF CARMEL VILLAGE STREET AND CHUNG HAU STREET, WITH THE ENTRANCE ON CARMEL VILLAGE STREET.

THE LORRY PARK WILL BE OPEN TO UNLADEN GOODS VEHICLES OF ALL TYPES. ON WEEKDAYS THE CHARGES WILL BE $5 FROM 8 A.M. TO 2 P.M. AND $5 FROM 1 P.M. TO 7 P.M. OR $10 FROM 8 A.M. TO 7 P.M. A MONTHLY PASS IS AVAILABLE AT $400,

THERE WILL BE NO CHARGE FOR PARKING ON WEEKDAYS FROM 7 P.M. TO 8 A.M. AND ON SUNDAYS AND PUBLIC HOLIDAYS.