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Council now emergent in its present form after evolving for a century and more. For this reason, the goodwill your visit brings to Hong Kong is all the more appreciated. We hope too that this will not be the last time that you and the members of your delegation will come here. (Applause)
This is surely a very happy day. However, the choice of temperature and humidity is not the Council's; but, on the next occasion, we promise you that the weather will be more like the kind to which you are accustomed in your own noble city. (Laughter)
May I now ask you to accept this gift as a token of our appreciation of the goodwill to Hong Kong which your visit manifests so significantly. (Applause)
Sir ROBIN GILLETT (in English):-May I say, Mr. Chairman, on behalf of the City, how much we will appreciate this and it will surely be displayed in a place of honour, certainly before my Council. I am very tempted to keep it to one side and keep it for myself because as you rightly say it is perhaps fitting that, I think, the first sailor Lord Mayor of London, certainly the first master mariner, should bring home a junk. It is not a vessel of which I am in fact certificated to command, I don't think, and as I spend my leisure hours now sailing, when I can't do that because of inclement weather. I shall be able to look into the appropriate glass case and cast my mind back to warmer climes and softer climates. Thank you.
ADJOURNMENT-5.14 P.M.
CHAIRMAN (in English):-I now declare this special session closed. The Council is convened to meet in ordinary session on Tuesday, 13th September, at 4 p.m.
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