TNAG-1433-FCO40-1916-Leading-personalities-in-Hong-Kong-1986 — Page 85

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SENIOR DIRECTORATE APPOINTMENTS

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THE GOVERNMENT ANNOUNCED TODAY (TUESDAY) ANOTHER SERIES OF FORTHCOMING SENIOR DIRECTORATE MOVEMENTS AND APPOINTMENTS AS FOLLOWS:

MR NEIL HENDERSON, THE SECRETARY FOR EDUCATION AND MANPOWER, WILL BE RETIRING IN AUGUST OF SEPTEMBER 1986 AFTER 33 YEARS OF PUBLIC SERVICE=

MR RON BRIDGE, THE PRESENT COMMISSIONER FOR LABOUR. WILL TAKE OVER FROM MR HENDERSON AS SECRETARY FOR EDUCATION AND MANPOWER=

MR TONY HAMMOND, THE DIRECTOR OF REGIONAL SERVICES, REPLACE MR BRIDGE AS COMMISSIONER FOR LABOUR AND

WILL

MR MICHAEL SUEN MING-YEUNG, DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF REGIONAL SERVICES, WILL BECOME DIRECTOR OF REGIONAL SERVICES.

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES

AGED 56. AFTER SERVING IN THE MR J.N. HENDERSON OBE. P. ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICE IN KENYA FOR NINE YEARS MR HENDERSON JOINED THE HONG KONG CIVIL SERVICE AS AN ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICER IN 1962. HE INITIALLY WORKED MAINLY IN THE FINANCE AND

HE THEN SERVED IN THE LABOUR DEPARTMENT, ESTABLISHMENT BRANCHES. FIRST AS DEPUTY COMMISSIONER FROM 1973 TO 1978 AND THEN AS

MR HENDERSON WILL HAVE BEEN COMMISSIONER FROM 1978 TO 1983. SECRETARY FOR EDUCATION AND MANPOWER FOR THREE YEARS ON HIS RETIREMENT AND WAS PROMOTED TO HIS SUBSTANTIVE RANK OF SECRETARY, GOVERNMENT SECRETARIAT IN 1984,

/MR R.G.B. BRIDGE