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Thanks to
Captain Rob Herman Member, Hong Kong SAR China Branch, for the following: “Captain Rhoderick
McNeill Fellow, who has just stepped down as Honorary
Secretary of The Nautical Institute's Hong Kong SAR branch, has the distinction
of being the longest-serving (and some would say the most long-suffering)
Secretary the Branch has had in its 25 years of existence. He was Secretary
from 1998 until 2002, and again from 2006 until 2009, a total of nine years'
hard labour. That is only his service as Secretary –
we have lost count of the years he has been a committee member, and even now
that he has stepped down as Secretary he remains on the committee. During the
period he served as Secretary, Rhod has managed to
carry out his secretarial duties impeccably, despite an ever-increasing
workload in his 'real' job, where he has had to maintain a presence in both Japan and Hong Kong ,
while carrying out vessel surveys all over the region. The Hong Kong Branch
owes him a major debt of gratitude.'And
to introduce myself as incoming Secretary: I am a freelance cargo
superintendent and surveyor; a long-term Hong Kong
resident, with over
40 years in the territory, but a relative new comer to the Institute.” Welcome
Rob
Seaways August 2009