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Lim Quiet, Retiring

(N.Z. Press Assn.—Copyright) CANBERRA, June 14. Mild-mannered, quiet, a bespectacled little man with a pipe—that’s how Canberra knows Tun Lim Yew Hock, the missing Malaysian High Commissioner.

He came to Canberra in January, 1964, less than two months after his predecessor had died in tragic circumstances.

The previous High Commissioner, Dato Suleiman Bin Dato Abdul Rahman, died in Melbourne after collapsing

from a heart attack when addressing a lunch meeting of the Australia-Asia Association. Tun Lim has been possibly the least gregarious head of mission in Canberra. His wife and daughters, too, have mixed much less with the community than other diplomatic families. They have been seldom seen with the women’s and young-er-set groups with which most diplomats’ wives and daughters mix. Tun Lim’s last public appearance in Canberra was at a men-only reception he gave last Wednesday to honour the birthday of the King of Malaysia. At that he appeared his usual self, although some of his guests now feel with hindsight they could detect signs that he was a little distrait. Tun Lim “Tun” is a Malaysian title —is not a professional diplomat In turn he was a thwarted engineer, an unemployed youth, clerk, stenographer, charcoal seller, union secret-

ary, politician and one of his State’s founding fathers. The High Commissioner has a son and four daughters but only two of them, Shirley, aged 25, and Adeline, aged 13, are in Canberra.

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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31086, 15 June 1966, Page 17

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237

Lim Quiet, Retiring Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31086, 15 June 1966, Page 17

Lim Quiet, Retiring Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31086, 15 June 1966, Page 17

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