Minutes of the 37 th Annual General Meeting (AGM) held on Tuesday, 27 July 2004 7:00 p.m. at the Clothing Industry Training Authority, 1/F, 63 Tai Yip Street, Kowloon Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong.

Present: Mr. Don West (Chairman)
Dr. T Y Lo (Hon. Treasurer)
Mr. Richard Liu (Hon. Secretary)
Mr. M L Cheung (EXCO Member)
and members and guests.

The Chairman welcomed members and guests to the 37th AGM.

Confirmation of the Minutes of the 36 th AGM held on 29 April 2003

1. Members confirmed the minutes of the 36 th AGM held on 29 April 2003, signed by the Chairman and Hon. Secretary.

Nominations/Election of Executive Committee members for 2004/2005

2. The Secretary reported that one new nomination in favour of Ms. Winnie Lam (proposed by Mr. William Wong Hing Keung and seconded by Dr. T Y Lo) had been received and he himself had decided to step down in view of his impending departure from the Hong Kong Productivity Council. There being no other new nominations, Members unanimously elected the remaining 8 members of the 2003/2004 Executive Committee and Ms. Winnie Lam as replacement for Mr. Richard Liu to serve the term of office of the 2004/2005 Executive Committee.

3. In view of the limited number of EXCO present at the meeting, the Chairman proposed and members agreed to defer the election of the office bearers until the first meeting of the new EXCO scheduled for October 2004.

(Post-meeting Note: Ms. Winnie Lam informed the Secretary that she was not a member of TI and she was only interested in attending the seminar. It was all a misunderstanding. Since Ms. Lam is not a Member of TI and as such her election to the EXCO is declared null and void)

Chairman's Report

4. In his report, the Chairman highlighted the following activities that took place over the past 12 months:

a) Trim Technology Day held on 23 February 2004 with over 700 attendees at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

b) 25 finalists of the Gala Fashion Show 2003 organized by the Institute of Textiles and Clothing of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University were awarded $500 each as a kind of encouragement.

c) Six scholarships were awarded to students of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University's Institute of Textiles and Clothing at HK$1,300 each.

d) A study mission to textile dyeing, printing and finishing factories in Dongguan, PRC was organized on 17 April 2004. This included visits to Dongguan Shatin Lakeside Textile Printing & Dyeing Co. Ltd & Dongguan Link Slasher Dyeing Works.

e) Promotion of the TI 83 rd World Conference held in Shanghai from 23 to 27 May 2004 under the theme: “Quality Textiles for Quality Life”. The Chairman attended the Conference along with around 1000 participants

5. The Chairman, however, regretted that there had been no significant progress on the subject of decentralization.

Hon. Treasurer's Report

6. The Hon. Treasurer presented for consideration of Members the draft financial report for the year ended 31 March 2004, subject to formal audit by the Auditor, C K Liu & Company.

7. The report was endorsed by Members.

8. Having regard to the simplicity of the Association's accounts, the Chairman requested the Secretary to negotiate with the Auditors for a possible reduction in the audit which stood at HK$4,000 in 2002/03.

[Post-meeting Note: Upon negotiation by the Secretary, C K Liu & Company had reduced the audit fee to HK$3,500 for the year 2003/04.]

Any Other Business

9. The Chairman proposed and undertook to draw up a survey questionnaire to seek the views of Hong Kong Section Members on (a) their expectations as Members of the Textile Institute and (b) payment of membership subscription locally.

10. There being no other business, the meeting was adjourned at 7:45 p.m.