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TUESDAY, APRIL 8, 1986

MR AUGUSTINE CHUI KAM, JP

AGED 52. JOINED THE CIVIL SERVICE IN SEPTEMBER 1952 AND SINCE TRANSFERRING TO THE ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICE IN 1964, HAS SERVED IN A VARIETY OF FIELDS OF WORK. THE POSTS HE HÁS HELD INCLUDE DEPUTY DIRECTOR IN THE FORMER HOME AFFAIRS DEPARTMENT, DEPUTY SECRETARY IN THE FORMER NEW TERRITORIES ADMINISTRATION, AND MORE RECENTLY DEPUTY DIRECTOR AND THEN DIRECTOR OF URBAN SERVICES. HE WAS PROMOTED TO HIS PRESENT RANK OF ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICER STAFF GRADE A IN SEPTEMBER 1985.

MR ALEXANDER PURVES, JP

AGED 53. JOINED GOVERNMENT IN AUGUST 1955 AND, FOLLOWING SUBSTANTIAL SERVICE IN THE FORMER COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY AND TRADE INDUSTRY AND CUSTOMS DEPARTMENTS, HE WAS APPOINTED DEPUTY COMMISSIONER OF TRADE INDUSTRY AND CUSTOMS IN JULY 1979. FOLLOWING A SUBSEQUENT TRANSFER TO THE ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICE IN THE RANK OF ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICER STAFF GRADE B HE SERVED AS DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF THE

AND IN HIS FORMER COUNCILS AND ADMINISTRATION BRANCH, PRESENT POST OF DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF URBAN SERVICES.

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OVERSEAS INVESTORS SHOWING MORE INTEREST

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INCREASED OVERSEAS INTEREST IN INVESTMENT IN HONG KONG IS EVIDENT FROM AN UPSURGE IN THE NUMBER OF ENQUIRIES AND NEW PROJECTS, THE SECRETARY FOR TRADE AND INDUSTRY, MR E.P. HO, SAID THIS (TUESDAY) EVENING.

SPEAKING AT A DINNER PARTY OF THE CHINESE MANUFACTURERS ASSOCIATION, MR HO SAID THAT GOVERNMENT HAD LONG EMPHASISED THE NEED FOR UPGRADING THE QUALITY OF THE TERRITORY'S PRODUCTS AND PROCESSES AND ONE OF THE AIMS OF THE INDUSTRIAL INVESTMENT PROGRAMME WAS TO ATTRACT HIGHER TECHNOLOGY TO HONG KONG.

+ I AM GLAD TO SAY THAT THE FIVE INDUSTRIAL PROMOTION OFFICES OVERSEAS AND THE INDUSTRY DEPARTMENT'S ONE-STOP UNIT ARE EXPERIENCING AN INCREASE IN ENQUIRIES AND NEW PROJECTS, HE SAID.

+ IN THE LAST THREE YEARS 35 PROJECTS WITH INVESTMENT AMOUNTING TO NEARLY $350 MILLION WERE COMPLETED.+

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