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Mr John Leslie BOYER

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Mr Boyer was Deputy Chairman of the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, having served with the Bank in Asia since 1949 and in Hong Kong in particular from 1973 until he left in September 1981. He was concurrently chairman of a number of financial and other companies in Hong Kong and director of many more; his public service included member- ship of the Banking Advisory Board, Trade and Industry Advisory Board and the Outward Bound Trust of Hong Kong. His major public contribution, however, was through the Community Chest, with which he had been closely associated from 1976 and of which

The he was Vice-Patron and member of the Executive Committee. Community Chest, which has some 77 welfare bodies affiliated to it and serves to co-ordinate their fund-raising activities, raised over $20 million in 1979/80. Mr Boyer has played a major part in the continuing and growing success of the Chest.

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Mr John Spencer DON, JP

Mr Don joined the Public Works Department as Engineer in 1954. He served for most of the first eighteen years in the Water Supplies Department where he established a firm reputation for getting results and displayed a high degree of skill and engineering expertise. His resourcefulness and versatility were particularly noticeable during the perio- dic water emergencies suffered by the territory and he became the Government Water Engineer responsible for the planning and provision of new works. In 1973 he assisted in the establishment of the New Territories Development Department and thereafter was appointed as Project Manager in charge of Sha Tin New Town. It was largely due to his organisational flair that spectacular progress was made on a number of important civil engineering contracts. His involvement in the race course development carried out by the Royal Hong Kong Jockey Club was much appreciated by that organisation. 1978 Mr Don became the Director of New Territories Development,

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