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The Government today announced a series of senior appointments which will take place in stages over the next nine months(A number of other appointments will be announced, when finalised.

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{AY The appointments take into account the organi- sational changes within the Government Secretariat which were announced by the Chief Secretary in Legislative Council on November 1117

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Otherwise, they are in accordance with normal postings policy, although some of them are due to the forth- coming retirement of a number of senior officers and the decision to upgrade the level of Hong Kong's representation in the United States by opening a new office in New York.

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The senior appointments are as follows :

-Secretary for Trade and Industry

Mr Eric Ho (Secretary for Social Services since April 1977)

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Secretary for Health and Welfare -

Mr Henry Ching (Deputy Financial Secretary since July 1976)

Hong Kong Trade Commissioner in the

United States - Mr Bill Dorward

(Secretary for Trade and Industry since

August 1982, and previously Director of Trade Industry & Customs since October 1979)

Secretary for Education and Manpower

Mr Neil Henderson (Commissioner for Labour since March 1978)

Director of Urban Services - Mr Graham Barnes (Regional Secretary, Hong Kong & Kowloon since September 1980)

Deputy Financial Secretary Mr Selwyn Alleyne (Director of Social Welfare since October 1980)

Director of Social Welfare Mr John Chambers (Secretary General, Standing Commission on Civil Service Salaries and Conditions of Service since September 1980)

Director of Housing - Mr David Ford

(previously Commissioner, Hong Kong Government Office, London)

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