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WEDNESDAY, MAY 29, 1985

SIR PHILIP PRAISED FOR +UNFAILING DEVOTION+ TO HK

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HONG KONG OWED THE CHIEF SECRETARY, SIR PHILIP HADDON-CAVE A GREAT DEBT OF GRATITUDE FOR HIS UNFAILING DEVOTION TO ITS INTERESTS, AND HIS OUTSTANDING LEADERSHIP OF THE ADMINISTRATION AND THE CIVIL SERVICE THROUGHOUT THIS OFTEN TESTING PERIOD, THE GOVERNOR, SIR EDWARD YOUDE SAID TODAY,

IN HIS VALEDICTORY TO SIR PHILIP IN THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL. THE GOVERNOR SAID SIR PHILIP WOULD SHORTLY LEAVE HONG KONG ON RETIREMENT, AND THIS WAS THE LAST SITTING OF THE COUNCIL AT WHICH HE WOULD BE WITH MEMBERS.

+1 SHOULD LIKE TO PAY A WARM TRIBUTE TO HIM FOR HIS OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION TO THE WORK OF THE GOVERNMENT, BOTH INSIDE AND OUTSIDE THIS COUNCIL, SIR EDWARD SAID.

POINTING OUT THAT SIR PHILIP JOINED THE HONG KONG CIVIL SERVICE IN 1962 AND BECAME AN EX-OFFICIO MEMBER OF THE COUNCIL IN 1971, WHEN HE WAS APPOINTED FINANCIAL SECRETARY, THE GOVERNOR SAID:

+FOR A DECADE HONG KONG HAD THE BENEFIT OF HIS SHREWD AND IMAGINATIVE GUIDANCE OF OUR ECONOMY. DURING THOSE TEN YEARS HONG KONG ENJOYED AN ERA OF ECONOMIC GROWTH AND PROSPERITY, +

THE PAST FOUR YEARS THAT SIR PHILIP HAD BEEN CHIEF SECRETARY HAD BEEN HISTORIC AND EVENTFUL YEARS, HE SAID.

+THE AGREEMENT ON HONG KONG'S FUTURE HAS BEEN REACHED- PROGRESS HAS BEEN MADE TOWARDS MORE REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT AND THE BUSINESS OF GOVERNMENT HAS BEEN CONDUCTED WITH EFFICIENCY AND DESPATCH, + THE GOVERNOR SAID.

SIR PHILIP HAD LONG BEEN A MEMBER OF THE COUNCIL AND ON MANY OCCASIONS HAD PRESIDED OVER IT, SIR EDWARD SAID.

+MEMBERS NEED NO REMINDER OF HIS TACT AND ROBUST GOOD HUMOUR IN CONDUCTING ITS BUSINESS.

+MANY OF HIS SPEECHES AND STATEMENTS WILL BE THE SOURCES TO WHICH FUTURE HISTORIANS WILL TURN IN SEEKING AN AUTHORITATIVE EXPOSITION OF THE ECONOMIC AND ADMINISTRATIVE POLICIES WHICH HAVE BEEN AT THE HEART OF HONG KONG'S SUCCESS.

+WE SHALL MISS HIM, HIS WISE COUNSEL, AND HIS INCISIVE MIND. DEBATES AND QUESTION TIME - IN THIS COUNCIL WILL NEVER BE THE

- SAME WITHOUT HIM,+ SIR EDWARD SAID.

HE HAD NO DOUBT, THE GOVERNOR SAID, THAT HONOURABLE MEMBERS WOULD WISH TO JOIN HIM IN WISHING SIR PHILIP AND LADY HADDON-CAVE +A LONG, HAPPY AND WELL-DESERVED RETIREMENT+.

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