4000091 P.R.H. 7
HONG KONG GOVERNMENT
NFORMATION SERVICES
UIDON LANTON
DAILY INFORMATION
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Tuesday, September 10, 1963
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12/2/23
OPENING OF NEW QUEEN ELIZABETH HOSPITAL
Address By H.E. The Governor
The following is the full text of the speech by His Excellency the
Governor, Sir Robert Black, G.C.M.G., 0.B.E., at the opening of the new
Queen Elizabeth Hospital in King's Park, Kowloon, today (Tuesday):
"His Royal Highness Prince Philip said, when he was here in 1959,
that he was always a bit suspicious about foundation stones and he referred
to the city which discovered that it had omitted to get on with the job of
building the town hall for which a foundation stone had been well and truly
laid 50 years before. Prince Philip, however, went on to express the belief
that this would not happen with the stone he was going to lay for the Queen
Elizabeth Hospital, and here, in the promised year, is that hospital.
"This is a very Great Day in the history of the Medical Department
in Hong Kong and a far cry from the first makeshift Government hospital
built on the Island in 1848. It is a notable day for Dr. MacKenzie and hia
colleagues, both in his own Department and outside of it, Official and
Unofficial, who have been associated with the construction.
"Dr. MacKenzie has told the story, proudly and comprehensively,
of the planning and building of the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, and he has
made the appropriate acknowledgements to the many who have participated in
the project. I shall not go over this ground again at length; but I
endorse the acknowledgements he has made, the tributes he has paid, and I
add my warmest appreciation to that which he has expressed.
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