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June
Visit to China by the Financial Secretary (meetings with Vice-Premier Gu Mu and Ministers of Foreign Trade and of Commerce).
New water supply agreement signed in Guangzhou providing for increase in supplies from 220 million cu meters in 1983 to 620 million cu meters in 1995 with provision for consultations if subsequent increases required.
Amateur Sports Federation and Hong Kong Olympic Committee decides not to send any competition to Moscow Olympics.
Visit by the Leader of the Opposition, Mr James Callaghan MP.
Trade Mission led by Sir Y K Kan visits Guangzhou as guests of the Director of the Guangdong Provincial Foreign Trade Bureau.
Unpublicised private visit by Liao Chengzhi, Vice-Chairman of the Chinese National People's Congress after heart surgery in the USA.
JUNE
6
18
21
22
223
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Green Paper on 'A Pattern of District Administration in Hong Kong' published.
Secretary of State for Trade over-rules CAA and gives permission for Cathay Pacific and Laker Airways to fly on the London
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Hong Kong route.
Start of scheduled air services between Hong Kong and Shanghai operated by CAAC (5 return flights a week) and CPA (2 return flights a week).
Successful takeover bid by Sir Y K Pao for the Hong Kong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co Ltd.
Money Lenders Ordinance 1980
(to control and regulate money lenders and to provide protection and relief against excessive interest rates).
JULY
13
Visit by Canadian Secretary of State for External Affairs, Dr Mark MacGuigan.
3
HM Tug Clare inadvertently enters Chinese waters while on anti-illegal immigration patrol.
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