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Governor addresses International Conference of the Clothing and Footwear Institute
Visit by Minister of State for Foreign & Commonwealth Affairs, Mr Peter Blaker, MP
Governor's term extended to April 1982
Governor opens stage one of Mass Transit Railway (Shek Kip Mei to Kwun Tong)
Governor visits USA and Canada
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Acting Governor opens 1979 Toy and Gift Fair
Over 5,000 people made homeless by fire in squatter area in Ma Tsai Hang Village
Mandatory restrictions on lighting lifted
Governor's address to Legislative Council
Visit by UK Parliamentary Delegation to China led by the Rt Hon Lord Rhodes KG, DFC
Visit by the Under Secretary of State (Army), Mr B Hayhoe, MP
Private visit by the Rt Hon Harold MacMillan
Festival of Asian Arts
Visit by Sir Paul Bryan, MP (Chairman of the Anglo-Hong Kong Parliamentary Group), Mr Ian Wrigglesworth, MP, Mr Ted Rowlands, MP and Mr Christopher Patten, MP
Drugs worth over HK$57 million (£5 m) seized from Panamanian freighter 'Tak Fook Shan'
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Governor gives dinner party for the No. 1 Director of the Hong Kong Branch of the New China News Agency (first such occasion since 1949)
Governor opens annual conference of the British Medical Association