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SUNDAY, APRIL 14, 1974

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SENIOR GOVERNMENT APPOINTMENTS ANNOUNCED

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MR. BRIAN WILSON, COMMISSIONER FOR TRANSPORT, WILL SUCCEED MR. DAVID ALEXANDER AS DIRECTOR OF URBAN SERVICES IN MARCH NEXT YEAR, IT WAS ANNOUNCED TODAY.

MR. ALEXANDER, WHO WAS FIRST APPOINTED TO HONG KONG IN 1953, HAS BEEN DIRECTOR OF URBAN SERVICES SINCE 1968. HE WILL BE LEAVING HONG KONG PRIOR TO RETIREMENT IN APRIL 1975.

MR. WILSON, 49, FIRST CAME TO HONG KONG IN 1948 AND HAS HELD A NUMBER OF POSTS IN THE NEW `TERRITORIES ADMINISTRATION, THE SECRETARIAT FOR HOME AFFAIRS, THE RESETTLEMENT DEPARTMENT, THE URBAN SERVICES DEPARTMENT AND THE COLONIAL SECRETARIAT.

MR. WILSON, WHO IS MARRIED WITH THREE CHILDREN, WILL BE

ON LEAVE FROM AUGUST TO OCTOBER THIS YEAR.

HE WILL BE SUCCEEDED IN OCTOBER AS COMMISSIONER FOR. TRANSPORT BY NR. IAN MACPHERSON, WHO IS AT PRESENT DEPUTY SECRETARY FOR THE NEW TERRITORIES.

MR. MACPHERSON, WHO IS MARRIED WITH TWO CHILDREN, HAS BEEN IN HONG KONG SINCE 1962.

DURING MR. WILSON'S ABSENCE FROM AUGUST TO OCTOBER THIS YEAR, THE ASSISTANT COMMISSIONER FOR TRANSPORT, MR. PETER LEEDS, WILL ACT AS COMMISSIONER.

NOTE TO EDITORS

PHOTOGRAPHS OF MR. WILSON AND MR. MACPHERSON ARE AVAILABLE! FOR COLLECTION FROM THE G.1.S. PRESS ROOM, 6TH FLOOR, BEACONSFIELD HOUSE.

RECEIVED IN REGISTRY No. 51

14 APR 1974

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