Hong Kong telegram No. Unnumbered' to Foreign Office
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supply will have to be reduced to eight hours and even then salinity would be about four hundred parts per million.
Housing Board's report for period April the first 1966 to thirt st March 1967 was tabled today at Legislative Council. The Board recommends that:
balance between present resettlement and Government low cost housing building programmes be adjusted to allow 550000 repeat 550000 individual units of resettlement accommodation and 440000 repeat 440000 units of Government low cost housing to be constructed between 1st April 1967 and 31st March 1973;
b. Housing Authority and Housing Society building programmes should coutinue on a self-financed basis; and
Government should investigate possibility of early conversion of some of older resettlement blocks into self-contained flats.
Report also contains recommendations for a housing census to be undertaken by the Commissioner of Census and Statistics in 1970 and for Government to continue to support Hong Kong Building and Loan Agency Limited and explore possibility or promoting joint development ventures with private enterprise.
In his speech introducing report to Legislative Council Attorney General said he particularly welcomed this report since it contains a general review of overall balance of various types of housing, public, public aided and private.
Mr. F.A.Lewis Director of a factory making precision devices in Aberdeen today expressed confidence in continued prosperity of Hong kong and his factory's potential growth.
Mr. Lewis's factory, Stuart Limited, a licensee of Hamlin Incorporated, U.S.A., manufactures Reed switches and Reed switch products which are used in computer memory systems keyboards.
Mr. Lewis expressed his confidence in Hong Kong when Mr. J.D. McGregor Assistant Director of Commerce and Industry visited factory this morning to see production of these sophisticated products.
Mr. McGregor said Mr. Lewis had taken right decision in establishing plant in Hong Kong although it must have been a difficult one to take in June this year when local Communist harassment reached its peak.
Hong Kong will be one of centres in world wide expansion planned by Burroughs Corporation early next year.
American firm will double its investment in Hong kong next year, Mr. Derek C. Cheng General Manager of Burroughs Machines Hong Kong Limited said yesterday.
"We have great hope in Hong kong because this year it is well ahead in both sales and revenue", Mr. Cheng said on his return to Hong Kong after conferences with Head Office.
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