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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1985

MR ANDREW SO'S WIDE RANGE OF INTERESTS AND OF PUBLIC APPOINTMENTS HAD PROVIDED HIM WITH A DEPTH OF KNOWLEDGE AND BREADTH OF VISION WHICH HAD BEEN INVALUABLE DURING HIS SEVEN YEARS IN THE COUNCIL.

+MEMBERS WILL RECALL, TOO, THE MANY OCCASIONS ON WHICH HIS WIT AND ALLEGORY HAVE ENRICHED OUR DEBATES,+ SIR EDWARD ADDED.

SPEAKING OF MR BILL BROWN, THE GOVERNOR SAID HIS PUBLIC APPOINTMENTS WERE NUMEROUS AND EXACTING, +EVEN BY THE STANDARDS OF HIS COLLEAGUES.+

HIS FINANCIAL BACKGROUND HAD BEEN OF PARTICULAR VALUE, +THE AMOUNT OF TIME HE HAS GIVEN IN HIS FIVE YEARS AS A MEMBER IS WELL MATCHED BY HIS ANALYTICAL AND COMMONSENSE APPROACH, AND HIS STEADY ADVANCEMENT OF THE INTERESTS OF HONG KONG, BOTH INSIDE AND OUTSIDE THIS COUNCIL, SIR EDWARD SAID.

MR KEITH LAM AND MR CARL TONG BELONGED TO THE LATEST GENERATION OF COMMUNITY LEADERS ON THE DISTRICT BOARDS.

+ IN THE IR SHORT TIME ON THE COUNCIL, THEY SHOWED THEMSELVES TO BE KEENLY INTERESTED IN THE WELFARE OF THE COMMUNITY.

+THEY WILL, I TRUST, CONTINUE THE IR PUBLIC SERVICE IN OTHER SPHERES, SIR EDWARD SAID.

SPEAKING OF THE OFFICIAL MEMBERS, THE GOVERNOR SAID THAT VALEDICTOR IES WERE NOT NORMALLY ACCORDED TO THEM, UNLESS THEY WERE ALSO RETIRING FROM PUBLIC OFFICE,

+HOWEVER, SIX MEMBERS ARE LEAVING THIS COUNCIL NOT AS PART OF THE NORMAL PATTERN BUT BECAUSE OF OUR CONSTITUTIONAL REFORMS WHICH HAVE SUBSTANTIALLY REDUCED THE NUMBER OF OFFICIAL PLACES.

+THESE ARE THE SECRETARY FOR SECURITY, THE SECRETARY FOR ECONOMIC SERVICES, THE SECRETARY FOR ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES AND INFORMATION, THE DIRECTOR OF EDUCATION, THE COMMISSIONER FOR LABOUR AND THE DIRECTOR OF MEDICAL AND HEALTH SERVICES.

+THEY AND THEIR PREDECESSORS HAVE CONTRIBUTED GREATLY TO THE WORK OF THE COUNCIL, SIR EDWARD SAID.

WARMEST THANKS WERE DUE TO THEM TOO FOR WHAT THEY HAD DONE.

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