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BIR CHO-YIU KWAN C.B.E..... J.P.. LL.B.

C. Y. Kwan is the senior Chinese unofficial member of

the Executive Council (he has been a member of ExCo since

May, 1961). He was an unofficial member of the Legislative

Council from 1959 until 1966. Mr. Kwan, a solicitor, is the

principal of C. Y. Kwan & Company. He is Chairman of the

Advisory Committee on Corruption. He is also a member of

the Chinese Temples Committee, the Narcotics Advisory

Committee, the Po Leung Kuk Permanent Board of Directors,

the Council of the University of Hong Kong and the Council

of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and the Council of

the Hong Kong Society for the Blind. In 1941 Mr. Kwan was

Officer in Chief, Food Depots, and from 1945-47 he was

Vice President of the Standing Military Court of the

British Military Administration. He served as First Police

Magistrate in the Civil Government from 1947 until 1948

when he was appointed a Tenancy Tribunal Magistrate.

He

was appointed an Unofficial Justice of the Peace in 1946.

In 1959 Mr. Kwan was awarded the 0.B.E. and in 1965 the C.B.E.

On his re-appointment to the ExCo in mid-1968 the Governor

described him as "the careful, thoughtful lawyer and the main

spokesman for this side of the Council.'

Hong Kong Representative at 24th Session of ECAFE in Australia 1968

Director: Hong Kong Tube & Metal Products Limited

Hong Kong Realty & Trust Co. Ltd. Associated Bankers Insurance Co. Ltd.

Vice Chairman: The Hong Kong Housing Society

Member of 8chool Council, Heep Yunn School