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P.R. 13
HONG KONG GOVERNMENT
NFORMATION
SERVICES
DAILY INFORMATION BULLETIN
SUPPLEMENT
EMBARGO NOTE TO NEWSPAPERS AND NEWS AGENCIES
Friday, October 20, 1967
The text of Lord Shepherd's radio and television talk must NOT be published or used on overseas radio transmission until 6 p.m. today (Friday). The talk can be heard on the English and Chinese Servicos of Radio Hong Kong and Commercial Radio immediately after the 6 p.m. news bulletins and by Rediffusion Telovision after the 8 p.m. news in Chinese and after the 9 p.m. news in English.
MINISTER OF STATE FOR COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
SPEAKS TO PEOPLE OF HONG KONG
The following is the full text of the radio and television talk to
the people of Hong Kong by the Minister of State for Commonwealth Affairs,
the Rt. Hon. The Lord Shepherd, P.C., this (Friday) evening:
"Tomorrow I shall be leaving for Singapore and then on to London.
I have spent some eight stimulating and vory valuable days in the Colony
and I would like to be able to give a few brief impressions of Hong Kong.
"When I arrived last Friday, I spoke of the need of change. There
wore some who thought that perhaps I came with a magic wand but, as you
remember, I referred to the change that was all around. It is right to
reflect upon the progress of the Colony. Some 20 years ago, we had a small
population, dependent upon trade.
"Today we have some 3,700,000 persons living here. Hong Kong is
today a thrusting, dynamic industrial port. It has been diversified from
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