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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1979

LEGCO BIDS FAREWELL TO MR. JORDAN

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THE GOVERNOR, SIR MURRAY MACLEHOSE, TODAY (WEDNESDAY) PAID TRIBUTE TO THE DIRECTOR OF TRADE. INDUSTRY AND CUSTOMS, THE HON. DAVID JORDAN WHO IS RETIRING AFTER 28 YEARS OF PUBLIC SERVICE IN HONG KONG,

IN HIS VALEDICTORY TO MR. JORDAN IN THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL, SIR MURRAY SAID, MR. JORDAN CONTRIBUTED GREATLY FROM HIS STORE OF OUTSTANDING ABILITY DURING HIS 28 YEARS OF HIGHLY DISTINGUISHED PUBLIC SERVICE. HE HAD SERVED IN THE ADMINISTRATIVE GRADE IN VAR JOUS BRANCHES OF THE SECRETARIAT INCLUDING THE HOME AFFAIRS, THE SECURITY, THE FINANCE, AND ECONOMIC SERVICES. HE WAS APPOINTED DIRECTOR OF TRADE, INDUSTRY AND CUSTOMS SEVEN YEARS AGO.

SIR MURRAY SAID +HIS INTELLECT, PRECISION OF THOUGHT, CLARITY OF EXPRESSION AND DETERMINATION ARE QUALITIES WE COULD NOT HAVE DONE WITHOUT.

+ IT WAS THESE QUALITIES, TOO, WHICH HAVE BEEN SO EVIDENT IN HIS VALUABLE CONTRIBUTIONS TO DEBATES IN THIS COUNCIL,+ HE SAID.

SIR MURRAY SAID MR. JORDAN WOULD BE GREATLY MISSED IN THE ADMINISTRATION AND IN THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

THE SENIOR UNOFFICIAL MEMBER, THE HON. OSWALD CHEUNG ALSO PRAISED MR. JORDAN.

HE SAID: +HONG KONG OWES A VERY LARGE DEBT TO HIM FOR HIS SKILL, PATIENCE AND PERSEVERANCE IN DIFFICULT TRADE NEGOTIATIONS, BOTH HERE AND ABROAD, WHERE SO OFTEN HE FOUND CARDS STACKED AGAINST HIM.

+EVERY TIME HE SET FORTH ON THESE ROUNDS OUR TEXTILE MEN WOULD HAVE SILENTLY VOICED TO THEMSELVES WORDS FROM THE NATIONAL ANTHEM:

SCATTER OUR ENEMIES

CONFOUND THE IR POLITICS,

FRUSTRATE THE IR KNAVISH TRICKS.

+AND IN THE FACE OF THE TOUGHEST AND BIGOTTED OPPOSITION, HE ALWAYS TRIED TO OBTAIN THE BEST POSSIBLE BARGAIN FOR HONG KONG.

+MR. JORDAN HAS CONTRIBUTED SIGNIFICANTLY TOWARDS HONG KONG'S PROSPERITY,

+HIS FORTHRIGHT SPEECH AND KEEN WIT WILL BE MISSED BY THIS COUNCIL, AND HIS PUBLIC SERVICE DESERVES TO BE LONG REMEMBERED BY THE PEOPLE OF HONG KONG, HE SAID.

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