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greatly. We would lead to now in civance in order to widen a rood on my sides (r Beng said in reply that he thought development wild not be great in the near fibre, although there would be ä significant increase in spivate our traffic if the area was opened to bevilats,).
After dealing with these points the Gwernor described Hong Kong's plans for making now lend available. He added thet a key element in Hong Kong was confidence, This was very important in terms of investment. The Chinese Government had been helpful on this over the last few years.
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On a container terminal Mr Zane said that this was 2 question for the central authorities and the Ministry of Communications. The Governor could discuss it further in Peking. Guangdong only wished to develop small container traffic for transporting food and verersbles ate, to llong Kong. He added that they were however thinking of the poscibility of building an oil pipeline from Hong Kong to the petro-chemical works at Whampoa, This roa in order to make use of the deep water facilities in Hong Kong. Their thinking was still at a very early etare. The Governor said that there would be no difficulty if the pipeline went from the new port of lantou. If it were to go from Hong Kong it might be possible to build a suitable terminal pier, but this would need very careful consideration by experts.
Immigration
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Finally the Governor said there was one further question he wished to raise which wes not surely economic. This was the problem of too many people noming to, and staying in, Hong Kong. Immigration had in the past been helpful to the growth of Hong Kong, But it was like feeding
a child. Food made the child grow: bit too much too quickly made it sick. Recently a great many people had come to Hong Kong saying they were visiting relatives. Only 2% returned. The people concerned were, in effect, cheating the Chinese authorities. A second problem was the number of people leaving Chine illegally, Recently many more hed come. This could not be welcome to the Chinese authorities. These problems affected both sides. They would have to he solved. This could be done by officials of both sides getting together. The subject could be discussed again on his roturn.
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