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HONG KONG GOVERNMENT
NFORMATION
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DAILY INFORMATION BULLETIN
SUPPLEMENT
Wednesday, August 2, 1972
GOVERNOR OPENS CROSS HARBOUR TUNNEL
The following is the full text of the speech of the Governor, Sir
Murray MacLehose, at the opening of the cross-harbour tunnel today (August 2,
1972):
"I am most honoured to perform the act of declaring this tunnel open,
on this day that all Hong Kong has so eagerly awaited.
"I do so with some sense of inadequacy because but for the unexpected
speed of the work Her Royal Highness Princess Alexandra would have performed it
with so much more grace and infinitely more charm. I am sure that we are all
delighted that she will nevertheless be associated with the tunnel by unveiling a
plaque during her visit later this year.
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"We are here to celebrate the conclusion of a very great project and the
opening of a very great facility; for once a truly historic occasion the
linking of the Island of Victoria to the peninsula of Kowloon. All Hong Kong
would like to congratulate those who have contributed to this very happy event.
"The list is long and I will not go over the ground already covered
by Mr. Marden, though the great firms he mentioned are very much in all our minds.
But I am sure nobody would grudge it if I mentioned the names of three men who
have in their different ways contributed so much to this project Mr. Hislop,
Mr. Williams and Mr. Brothers.
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