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MONDAY, MARCH 10, 1986

SENIOR GOVERNMENT POSTINGS ANNOUNCED

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THE SECRETARY (GENERAL DUTIES), MR PETER WILLIAMS, WILL LEAVE THE SERVICE ON COMPLETION OF HIS CONTRACT AT THE END OF 1986, IT WAS ANNOUNCED TODAY, MR WILLIAMS WILL HAVE BEEN IN POST FOR ABOUT TWO YEARS.

THE NEW SECRETARY (GENERAL DUTIES) WILL BE MR BARRIE WIGGHAN WHO IS CURRENTLY REGIONAL SECRETARY (HONG KONG AND KOWLOON). MR WIGGHAM WILL LEAVE HIS PRESENT POST IN MAY 1986 AND WILL INITIALLY UNDERTAKE LANGUAGE STUDIES.

AFTER A PERIOD OF LEAVE HE IS TO BE SECONDED TO HM DIPLOMATIC SERVICE FOR A TEMPORARY APPOINTMENT AS COUNSELLOR AT THE BRITISH EMBASSY IN PEKING BETWEEN JULY AND OCTOBER, BEFORE RETURNING TO HONG KONG TO TAKE OVER FROM MR WILLIAMS.

MR CHAU TAK-HAY, PRESENTLY DEPUTY REGIONAL SECRETARY (HONG KONG AND KOWLOON), WILL TAKE OVER FROM MR WIGGHAM AND BECOME REGIONAL SECRETARY IN MAY,

BRIEF BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES ON THESE OFFICERS FOLLOW :

MR PETER WILLIAMS, CBE

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES

AGED 59. JOINED THE CIVIL SERVICE IN FEBRUARY 1953 AS A CADET OFFICER CLASS 11 AND ROSE THROUGH A SERIES OF PROMOTIONS TO THE RANK OF ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICER STAFF GRADE A IN AUGUST 1975. HE RETIRED FROM THE CIVIL SERVICE IN AUGUST 1978. DURING 1979 AND 1980, HE SERVED AS SECRETARY-GENERAL OF THE STANDING COMMISSION ON CIVIL SERVICE SALARIES AND CONDITIONS OF SERVICE AND WAS THEN COMMISSIONER OF THE INDEPENDENT COMMISSION AGAINST CORRUPTION FROM 1980 TO THE END OF 1984. HE WAS RE-APPOINTED TO HIS PRESENT RANK OF SECRETARY, GOVERNMENT SECRETARIAT IN JANUARY 1985 AND SINCE THEN HAS BEEN THE SECRETARY (GENERAL DUTIES).

MR BARRIE WIGGHAM, JP

AGED 49. JOINED THE CIVIL SERVICE IN SEPTEMBER 1961 AS AN ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICER AND WAS PROMOTED TO HIS PRESENT RANK OF ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICER STAFF GRADE A IN SEPTEMBER 1985. HE HAS SERVED IN A NUMBER OF DEPARTMENTS AND BRANCHES INCLUDING THE URBAN SERVICES DEPARTMENT, THE THEN COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY DEPARTMENT, THE ECONOMIC BRANCH AND THE FINANCE BRANCH. MORE RECENTLY, HE WAS DEPUTY SECRETARY, NEW TERRITORIES ADMINISTRATION FROM 1974 TO 1976, DEPUTY SECRETARY OF THE HOME AFFAIRS AND INFORMATION BRANCH FROM 1976 TO 1979 AND COMMISSIONER FOR RECREATION AND CULTURE FROM 1979 TO 1983. HE HAS BEEN IN HIS PRESENT POST OF REGIONAL SECRETARY (HONG KONG AND KOWLOON) SINCE SEPTEMBER 1983.

/YR CHAU BK-HAY, JP