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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1991

LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL APPOINTMENT

(SATURDAY)

THAT

THE

MEMBERS OF THE

A GOVERNMENT SPOKESMAN ANNOUNCED TODAY

GOVERNOR HAD RE-APPOINTED THE FOLLOWING PERSONS AS LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL FOR THE 1991-95 TERM:

THE HON ALLEN LEE CBE JP

MRS SELINA CHOW OBE JP

THE HON MRS RITA FAN OBR JP

MR MARTIN BARROW OBE

MRS MIRIAM LAU

MR LAU WAH-SUM OBE JP

MRS PEGGY LAM MBE JP

THE GOVERNOR HAS ALSO MADE THE FOLLOWING NEW

THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL FOR THE 1991-95 TERMS:

PROFESSOR EDWARD CHEN KWAN-YIU

MR MOSES CHENG MO-CHI

MR VINCENT CHENG HOI-CHUEN

MR MARVIN CHRUNG KIN-TUNG

MR TIMOTHY HA WING-HO MBE JP

DR LAM KUI-CHUN

MR ERIC LI KA-CHEUNG

PROFESSOR FELICE LIEH-MAK OBE JP

MR STEVEN POON KWOK-LIM

MR HENRY TANG YING-YEN

APPOINTMENTS TO

IN ADDITION, AS HAS BEEN PREVIOUSLY ANNOUNCED, MR

JOHN SWAINE FILL

CBE QC JP HAS BEEN APPOINTED AS A MEMBER OF THE COUNCIL AND WILL THE POST OF DEPUTY PRESIDENT.

SITTING

THE APPOINTMENTS WILL RUN FROM THE DAY APPOINTED FOR THE

9. THE

1991) UNTIL OF

NEW SESSION

(OCTOBER

THE

FIRST NEXT

· DISSOLUTION OF THE COUNCIL.

THE GOVERNOR SAID THE APPOINTED MEMBERS OF THE CHOSEN FROM A WIDE RANGE OF DIFFERENT BACKGROUNDS.

COUNCIL WERR

SERVICE. THEY ARE DEMONSTRATED

ALL HAD A GOOD RECORD OF PREVIOUS PUBLIC PEOPLE WHO HAVE MADE THEIR MARK IN THEIR FIELDS AND HAVE INDEPENDENCE OF MIND.

HE WAS SURE THAT THEY WOULD ALL MAKE A VALUABLE CONTRIBUTION TO THE WORK OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL OVER THE NEXT FOUR YEARS.

THAT CONTRIBUTION HE ALSO PAID A WARM TRIBUTE TO THE RETIRING AS APPOINTED MEMBERS HAD MADE TO THE GOOD GOVERNMENT OF KONG DURING THEIR MEMBERSHIP OF THE COUNCIL.

THOSE

HONG

ELECTED ΤΟ OTHERS WOULD

HE NOTED WITH PLEASURE THAT SOME OF THEM HAD BEEN THE COUNCIL FOR THE NEW SESSION, AND WAS SURE THAT THE CONTINUE TO SERVE HONG KONG IN OTHER WAYS IN THE YEARS TO COME.

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