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SUNDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1988

FORMER GOVERNOR, SIR DAVID TRENCH PASSES AWAY

FORMER GOVERNOR OF HONG KONG, SIR DAVID HOME IN ENGLAND LAST NIGHT. HE WAS 73.

TRENCH, DIED AT HIS

HE FIRST DIFFERENT HIS LONG KONG AND

WILSON SAID: "I HEARD IN A TRIBUTE, THE GOVERNOR, SIR DAVID

DAVID TRENCH'S DEATH. WITH GREAT SADNESS THE NEWS OF SIR

AND SERVED IN MANY CAME TO HONG KONG AS A CADET IN 1950

TO 1971, DURING POSTS BEFORE BECOMING GOVERNOR FROM 1964 SERVICE HERE AND SINCE, HE REMAINED DEEPLY ATTACHED TO HONG ITS PEOPLE. HE WILL BE SADLY MISSED BY HIS MANY FRIENDS HERE,

M.C.:

THE FOLLOWING IS THE BIOGRAPHY OF SIR

DAVID TRENCH, G.C.M.G..

WAS EDUCATED

AT BORN IN 1915, SIR DAVID CLIVE CROSBIE TRENCH TONBRIDGE AND JESUS COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE. HE JOINED THE COLONIAL SERVICE

ISLANDS PROTECTORATE IN 1938. AS A CADET IN THE BRITISH SOLOMON

THE WAR IN THE BRITISH SOLOMON WESTERN PACIFIC DURING THE RANK OF LIEUTENANT AND THE U.3. LEGION OF OF THE ADMINISTRATION

HE WAS COMMISSIONED DURING ISLANDS DEFENCE FORCE AND SERVED IN THE CAMPAIGN IN THE SOLOMON ISLANDS. HE ATTAINED THE COLONEL AND WAS AWARDED THE MILITARY CROSS MERIT. IN 1947,

HE

*TO RETURNED

WHICH

ARE

THE CIVIL PART OF THE

WESTERN

PACIFIC

SOLOMON ISLANDS, COMMISSION, AND ACTED AS RESIDENT COMMISSIONER THERE TWICE.

FROM 1949 TO 1950, HE WAS ATTACHED TO THE JOINT SERVICES COLLEGE BEFORE BEING TRANSFERRED TO HONG KONG.

IN VARIOUS POSTS, DEFENCE SECRETARY, COLONIAL

HIGH

STAFF

IN

IN HONG KONG, HE ACTED

OF INCLUDING THOSE

DEPUTY FINANCIAL SECRETARY, OF LABOUR BEFORE

DEPUTY COMMISSIONER

BECOMING

JANUARY

RIGH WAS APPOINTED 1959.

ΤΟ PACIFIC

GUTCH, SIR JOHN

IN SECRETARY

WESTERN

HE SUCCESSION COMMISSIONER, K.C.M.G., O.B.E WHO RETIRED EARLY IN 1961.

SIR DAVID SUCCEEDED SIR ROBERT BLACK AS GOVERNOR OF IN 1964. HE WAS SUCCEEDED BY LORD MACLEHOSE IN 1971.

HONG KONG

REGULATIONS ON CHEMICAL SUBSTANCES DUE TO BECOME EFFECTIVE

THE

(DANGEROUS THE LEGISLATIVE

FACTORIES AND INDUSTRIAL UNDERTAKINGS SUBSTANCES) REGULATIONS 1988, WHICH WERE APPROVED BY COUNCIL IN MID-JUNE, WILL COME INTO EFFECT ON DECEMBER 15.

THE REGULATIONS PROVIDE FOR THE CLASSIFICATION, LABELLING, SAFE

SUBSTANCES CHEMICAL

COMMONLY USED IN

USE AND SAFE HANDLING OF 231 INDUSTRY IN HONG KONG.

/UNDER THE