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INFORMATION SERVICES
DAILY INFORMATION
BULLETIN
Thursday, March 26, 1964
H.E. THE GOVERNOR'S SPEECH AT LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL MEETING
The following is the full text of the speech by His Excellency the Governor, Sir Robert Black, G.C.M.G., O.B.E., at today's meeting of the
Legislative Council:
"It is just a month since I addressed this Council at the
commencement of our Budget Session and spoke at some length about Hong Kong's achievements and prospects, and I do not propose to add much more so soon thereafter to the observations I then made.
"When I look back over the period of my service in Hong Kong, I find it difficult to limit the range of the years to 1958. I go back to February, 1952, when I first set foot on the territory at Kai Tak to assume the duties of Colonial Secretary.
"I became so immersed in Hong Kong problems and felt myself so closely identified with the people here and the work in which we were all engaged, that my return, at the beginning of 1958 after three years' absence was a resumption of something interrupted rather than an assumption of something new. And it is over these twelve years that I find my memory travelling back, including the period when I had the privilege of serving under Sir Alexander Grantham as well as over the later years when the honour fell to me to take over the leadership from him.
"So much has happened in these years. Some revolutions bring nothing but disaster and misery in their immediate train and many years may