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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1986

IN RESPONSE TO A STATEMENT TODAY (TUESDAY) FROM THE AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT THAT IT RECOGNISÉS THE BRITISH NATIONAL (OVERSEAS) STATUS AND PASSPORT THAT GOES WITH IT, A HONG KONG BOVERNMENT SPOKESMAN SAID HE WELCOMED THE MOVE NOTING THAT “RUSTWALTA WAS THE FIRST NEIGHBOUR IN THE REGION TO ACCEPT

THE NEW STATUS.

SERVICE EXTENDED

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THE COMMISSIONER OF POLICE, MR R.H. ANNING, HAS AGREED TO EXTEND HIS SERVICE FOR ONE YEAR UNTIL APRIL 15, 1989.

MR ANKING SERVED AS ONE OF HER MAJESTY'S INSPECTORS OF CONSTABULARY FOR ENGLAND AND WALES AT THE UNITED KINGDOM HOME OFFICE BEFORE JOINING THE ROYAL HONG KONG POLICE IN JULY 1983 AS DEPUTY COMMISSIONER OF POLICE. HE BECAME COMMISSIONER OF POLICE IN APRIL 1985.

STOCK TO ACT AS SOLICITOR GENERAL

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THE ATTORNEY GENERAL, MR MICHAEL THOMAS, QC, TODAY (TUESDAY) ANNOUNCED THAT FOLLOWING THE APPOINTMENT OF MR JOSEPH DUFFY, QC, AS DEPUTY JUDGE OF THE HIGH COURT, MR FRANK STOC QC, HAD BEEN APPOINTED TO ACT AS SOLICITOR GENERAL.

BEFORE COMING TO HONG KONG, MR STOCK (41) PRACTISED AT THE BAR IN LONDON AND WAS APPOINTED CROWN COUNSEL IN THE ATTORNEY GENERAL'S CHAMBERS IN 1978. HE WAS PROMOTED TO SENIOR CROWN COUNSEL IN OCTOBER 1979, AND TO ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL CROWN COUNSEL THE FOLLOWING YEAR,

IN MAY 1980, MR STOCK WAS APPOINTED DEPUTY PRINCIPAL CROWN COUNSEL IN THE PROSECUTIONS DIVISION OF CHAMBERS AND IN 1984 WAS PROMOTED TO PRINCIPAL CROWN COUNSEL,

HE CURRENTLY OCCUPIES THE POST OF DEPUTY CROWN SOLICITOR IN THE CIVIL DIVISION.

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