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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1976

SENIOR GOVERNMENT APPOINTMENTS

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MR. D.C. BRAY, SECRETARY FOR HOME AFFAIRS, IS TO BE POSTED AS HONG KONG'S COMMISSIONER IN LONDON. MR. BRAY WILL TAKE OVER FROM MR. S.T. KIDD WHO WILL RETIRE FROM THE PUBLIC SERVICE IN SEPTEMBER 1977.

THE NEW SECRETARY FOR HOME AFFAIRS WILL BE MR. F.K. LI WHO WILL ASSUME THE POST IN MAY OF NEXT YEAR.

COMMENTING ON THE APPOINTMENT, A GOVERNMENT SPOKESMAN SAID: →THE APPOINTMENT OF MR. BRAY, ONE OF THE MOST SENIOR OFFICERS IN THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT, REFLECTS THE IMPORTANCE PLACED ON THE HONG KONG COMMISSIONER'S POST.

+ IN LONDON, MR. BRAY WILL CO-ORDINATE THE MANY ACTIVITIES UNDERTAKEN BY THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT IN BRITAIN, INCLUDING THE DISSEMINATION OF INFORMATION ON HONG KONG LIAISON WITH HONG KONG RESIDENTS IN BRITAIN, AND THE REVIEW OF COMMERCIAL AND

INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENTS AND THEIR POSSIBLE EFFECT ON HONG KONG'S INTERESTS,+ HE EXPLAINED.

MR. BRAY, WHO IS 50 YEARS OF AGE, JOINED THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT IN 1950. HE HAS PREVIOUSLY WORKED IN THE GOVERNMENT SECRETARIAT, THE SOCIAL WELFARE DEPARTMENT, THE URBAN SERVICES DEPARTMENT, THE NEW TERRITORIES ADMINISTRATION, THE TRANSPORT DEPARTMENT AND THE SECRETARIAT FOR HOME AFFAIRS (NOW HOME AFFAIRS DEPARTMENT).

HE WAS COMMISSIONER FOR TRANSPORT FROM 1965 TO 1966- DEPUTY SECRETARY FOR HOME AFFAIRS FROM 1968 TO 1970, AND ACTING SECRETARY FOR HOME AFFAIRS FROM JULY 1970 TO JANUARY 1971 AFTER WHICH HE BECAME DISTRICT COMMISSIONER, NEW TERRITORIES BEFORE BEING APPOINTED AS SECRETARY FOR HOME AFFAIRS IN NOVEMBER 1973.

MR. F.K. LI IS 54 AND JOINED THE GOVERNMENT IN 1954. HE HAS SERVED IN VARIOUS POSTS IN THE RESETTLEMENT, HOME AFFAIRS, LABOUR, AND COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY DEPARTMENTS AND THE GOVERNMENT SECRETARIAT.

HE ACTED AS FINANCIAL SECRETARY ON TWO OCCASIONS IN 1967 AND 1968 AND WAS SECRETARY FOR HOME AFFAIRS FROM AUGUST TO OCTOBER 1972. HE WAS APPOINTED DIRECTOR OF SOCIAL WELFARE IN NOVEMBER THE SAME YEAR. HE BECAME SECRETARY FOR SOCIAL SERVICES IN SEPTEMBER 1973. SINCE THEN HE HAS SERVED AS SECRETARY FOR HOME AFFAIRS, ONCE IN 1974 AND ONCE IN 1975.

MR. S.T. KIDD AGED 51, BECAME COMMISSIONER OF THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT OFFICE IN LONDON IN 1973. HE FIRST JOINED THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT IN 1950 AND BECAME DEPUTY DISTRICT COMMISSIONER, NEW TERRITORIES IN 1959. HE WAS APPOINTED PRINCIPAL ASSISTANT COLONIAL SECRETARY IN 1965 AND ESTABLISHMENT SECRETARY IN 1970. HE HAD ALSO ACTED AS DEPUTY COLONIAL SECRETARY AND COLONIAL SECRETARY (NOW CHIEF SECRETARY) ON A NUMBER OF OCCASIONS.

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