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SYDNEY: South African-bom
businessman Mr David Block has
been appointed chairman of the
Sydney Opera House Trust.
The trust is responsible to the State
Government for the operation and
maintenance of the Opera House.
Mr Block takes over from Sir Robert
Norman, who served as chairman of the
trust from May, 1977, to April 30 this
year: Sir Robert, a former general man
ager of the Bank of NSW was a mem
ber of the trust for eight years before
becoming its chairman.
The new chairman founded and is a
member of the merchant banft David
Block and Associates. He is also a
director of .CSR and is about to com
plete a three-year term as a member of
the Australian Film Commission.
He was a member of the Committee
of Inquiry into Inflation and Taxation
(the Mathews Committee) in 1975.
Born in 1936, Mr Block was educated
at the King Edward VII School, Johan
nesburg, and at the University of the
Witwatersrand. He graduated with
honours in law.
He was a partner in a legal firm
before coming to live in Australia in
1964. Soon after he arrived, he joined
the merchant bank Darling (now
Schroder Darling), an associate of the
Schroder Group.
He became a director of all the
companies in the Schroder Group
before leaving to form his own firm in
1971
Mr Block's wife, Naomi, was born in
England and educated in South Africa.
They have four children: Michael, 19,
Susan, 17, Jennifer, 14, and Carolyn,
12, and live at Vaucluse.
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