PARLIAMENTARY QUESTION
21 July 1975
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22 JULT
Mr A P Costain (Folkestone and Hythe): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many people would be employed in the construction of the mass transit system in Hong Kong.
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It is estimated that about 2,500 people
would be employed in the early stages of building the modified initial system of the Mass Transit Railway. The number would rise. to some 4,500 between 1976 and 1978, when the bulk
of the work would be undertaken.
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