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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1981

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MR DEREK JONES HAS BEEN SECRETARY FOR TRANSPORT SINCE SEPTEMBER, 1981. BEFORE THAT HE WAS SECRETARY FOR THE ENVIRONMENT FROM 1976.

MR GRAHAM BARNES HAS BEEN DIRECTOR OF HOME AFFAIRS SINCE SEPTEMBER 1, 1980.

(F) MR IAN MACPHERSON HAS BEEN DAEA SINCE SEPTEMBER 1, 1981 AND WAS PREVIOUSLY DIRECTOR OF ADMINISTRATION AND MANAGEMENT SERVICES SINCE OCTOBER 20, 1978.

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MR CLAUDE BURGESS' CAREER IN HONG KONG CULMINATED

IN HIS APPOINTMENT AS COLONIAL SECRETARY, 1958-1963. HE HAS BEEN MINISTER FOR HONG KONG COMMERCIAL RELATIONS WITH THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES AND THE MEMBER STATES SINCE OCTOBER 1974.

SIR JACK A FIRST-CLASS CHIEF SECRETARY+

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THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY PAID WARM TRIBUTE TO THE CONTRIBUTIONS AND ACHIEVEMENTS OF SIR JACK CATER WHO WILL SOON BE LEAVING TO TAKE UP HIS NEW POST AS HONG KONG COMMISSIONER IN LONDON.

SIR JACK, WHO HAS SERVED HONG KONG FOR MORE THAN 30 YEARS, ATTENDED HIS LAST COUNCIL MEETING AS CHIEF SECRETARY THIS AFTERNOON.

THE GOVERNOR, SIR MURRAY MACLEHOSE, DESCRIBED HIM AS +A FIRST-CLASS CHIEF SECRETARY+, WHO HAD COMBINED A CAPACITY FOR INNOVATION WITH EXCELLENT POLITICAL JUDGEMENT AND FAR-SIGHTED CONCERN FOR THE WELFARE OF THE PUBLIC SERVICE HE LED.

THIS HAD BEEN NO SURPRISE, SIR MURRAY SAID, NOTING THAT SIR JACK HAD SHOWN HIS METTLE UNDER THE EXCEPTIONAL TEST OF FIGHTING CORRUPTION FOR FIVE COURAGEOUS YEARS AS THE FIRST COMMISSIONER OF THE INDEPENDENT COMMISSION AGAINST CORRUPTION.

*THE BREAK ING, DURING THOSE YEARS, OF THIS TRADITIONAL SCOURGE OF HONG KONG WILL ALWAYS BE REMEMBERED AS A REMARKABLE ACHIEVEMENT AND AN IMMENSE CONTRIBUTION TO THE WELL-BEING OF OUR COMMUNITY, + SIR MURRAY SAID.

THE GOVERNOR NOTED THAT SIR JACK'S EARLIER WORK IN HIS VAR IED SERVICE TO HONG KONG HAD GIVEN HIM A DEEP KNOWLEDGE OF THE LIVES AND NEEDS OF THOSE AT ALL LEVELS IN INDUSTRY, AGRICULTURE AND FISHERIES.

THI KNO LEDE