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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1990

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NEW DIRECTOR OF GOVERNMENT SUPPLIES

THE GOVERNMENT ANNOUNCED TODAY (WEDNESDAY) THE

SUCCEED MR ROY KILVERT MR BILLY LAM CHUNG-LUN TO GOVERNMENT SUPPLIES IN JANUARY 1991.

APPOINTMENT OF

AS DIRECTOR OF

MR KILVERT,

WHO

THE JOINED

GOVERNMENT IN

MAY 1951 AS AN YEARS OF PUBLIC ASSISTANT STORES OFFICER, WILL BE RETIRING AFTER 40

IS SERVICE. HE BECAME THE DIRECTOR OF GOVERNMENT SUPPLIES IN 1979 AND ONE OF THE LONGEST SERVING HEADS OF DEPARTMENT IN THE GOVERNMENT.

THE

GOVERNMENT AS AN AGED 42, MR LAM JOINED

ADMINISTRATIVE

HE

HIS ROSE TO

PRESENT RANK OFFICER IN 1970.

OF ADMINISTRATIVE PROGRAM AT THE OFFICER STAFF GRADE B IN 1985. HE ATTENDED THE SLOAN STANFORD UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS FROM 1985 TO 1986 OBTAINED A MASTERS DEGREE IN MANAGEMENT SCIENCE.

MR LAM HAS SERVED IN A NUMBER

BRANCHES.·

OF

GOVERNMENT

AND

DEPARTMENTS AND

HONG HE WAS HEAD OF THE

KONG FROM JUNE 1986 TO DECEMBER 1987, +

SAN FRANCISCO. HE WAS DEPUTY ECONOMIC AND TRADE AFFAIRS OFFICE IN

1989, BEFORE SECRETARY FOR MONETARY AFFAIRS FROM JUNE 1988 TO AUGUST HE TOOK UP HIS PRESENT APPOINTMENT AS DEPUTY SUPPLIES.

DIRECTOR OF GOVERNMENT

TAR YIELD OF CIGARETTES DECREASED

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THE AVERAGE TAR YIELD AMONG THE 109 TOP BEST-SELLING CIGARETTES IN HONG KONG HAS DECREASED BY 0.5MG/CIGARETTE ΤΟ 14.5MG/CIGARETTE COMPARED WITH THE FIGURE OF 15.0MG/CIRGARETTE IN THE LAST SURVEY, ACCORDING TO THE LATEST SIX-MONTH REVIEW OF TAR AND NICOTINE WIELDS OF CIGARETTES RELEASED BY THE GOVERNMENT TODAY

(WEDNESDAY).

THE AVERAGE NICOTINE YIELD OF CIGARETTES HAS, HOWEVER, REMAINED AT THE SAME LEVEL OF 1.27MG/CIGARETTE AS IN THE LAST SURVEY.

A GOVERNMENT SPOKESMAN SALD THE FIGURES FROM THE LATEST ANALYSIS SHOW THAT THE AVERAGE TAR YIELD HAS FALLEN TO A RECORD LOW SINCE THE COMMENCEMENT OF PERIODICAL SURVEYS OF TAR AND NICOTINE YIELDS OF CIGARETTES SOME SEVEN YEARS AGO.

"APART FROM THE

REDUCTION IN THE AVERAGE TAR YIELD, THE PRESENT SURVEY HAS NOT REVEALED ANY SIGNIFICANT CHANGE FROM THE POSITION SIX MONTHS AGO," HE ADDED.

/AS IN