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MR DAVID AKERS-JONES, CMG, JP

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FRIDAY, JANUARY 4, 1985

AGED 57. AFTER SERVICE IN MALAYA BETWEEN 1953 AND 1957 MR AKERS-JONES WAS TRANSFERRED TO THE HONG KONG CIVIL SERVICE AS A CADET OFFICER CLASS II IN JULY 1957. BETWEEN 1960 AND 1969 HE SERVED AS A DISTRICT OFFICER, IN TSUEN WAN, ISLANDS, AND YUEN LONG DISTRICTS, AND LATER AS DEPUTY DISTRICT COMMISSIONER IN THE NEW TERRITORIES ADMINISTRATION. AFTER SERVICE IN THE LANDS BRANCH OF THE GOVERNMENT SECRETARIAT BETWEEN 1969 AND 1973 HE BECAME DISTRICT COMMISSIONER, NEW TERRITORIES AND LATER SECRETARY FOR THE NEW TERRITORIES IN NOVEMBER 1973. ON THE FORMATION OF THE CITY AND NEW TERRITORIES ADMINISTRATION HE BECAME ITS FIRST SECRETARY IN DECEMBER 1981, THE TITLE OF THE POST BEING CHANGED LATER TO ITS PRESENT DESIGNATION OF SECRETARY FOR DISTRICT ADMINISTRATION, MR AKERS-JONES WAS PROMOTED TO HIS PRESENT RANK OF SECRETARY, GOVERNMENT SECRETARIAT IN FEBRUARY, 1977.

MR DONALD LIAO, CBE, JP

AGED 55. MR LIAO JOINED THE CIVIL SERVICE AS AN ARCHITECT IN MARCH 1960. IN NOVEMBER 1968 HE WAS PROMOTED TO BE COMMISSIONER FOR HOUSING IN CHARGE OF THE HOUSING DIVISION OF THE URBAN SERVICES DEPARTMENT. WITH THE FORMATION OF THE HOUSING DEPARTMENT, HE BECAME DIRECTOR OF HOUSING IN SEPTEMBER 1973. AN APPOINTMENT WHICH HE HELD CONTINUOUSLY UNTIL MARCH 1980. SINCE MAY 1980 MR LIAO HAS BEEN SECRETARY FOR HOUSING, AND HE WAS PROMOTED TO THE RANK OF SECRETARY, GOVERNMENT SECRETARIAT IN APRIL 1981.

MR DAVID FORD, MVO, OBE, JP

AGED 49. MR FORD JOINED THE HONG KONG CIVIL SERVICE AS DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF INFORMATION SERVICES IN JUNE 1972, AND WAS APPOINTED AS DIRECTOR OF INFORMATION SERVICES IN SEPTEMBER 1972. AFTER A SECONDMENT TO THE UNITED KINGDOM GOVERNMENT COMMENCING IN JANUARY 1977, HE RETURNED TO HONG KONG AS SECRETARY FOR INFORMATION IN JANUARY 1979. HE THEN SERVED AS COMMISSIONER, LONDON OFFICE BETWEEN JULY 1980 AND DECEMBER 1981. HE WAS APPOINTED TO HIS PRESENT POST AS DIRECTOR OF HOUSING IN JULY 1983. MR FORD WAS PROMOTED TO HIS PRESENT RANK OF ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICER STAFF GRADE A IN AUGUST 1981.

MR PANG YUK-LING, ISO, JP

AGED 54. MR PANG JOINED THE CIVIL SERVICE IN OCTOBER 1956 AS AN APPRENTICE ARCHITECT IN THE (THEN) PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT. HE WAS APPOINTED ON TRANSFER AS CHIEF ARCHITECT IN THE HOUSING DEPARTMENT IN MARCH 1974, AND PROMOTED TO HIS PRESENT RANK OF DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF HOUSING (CONSTRUCTION) IN MARCH 1981. HE HAS ACTED AS DIRECTOR OF HOUSING ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS.

/MR IAN