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Monday, October 23, 1972
populated area. New housing and schools, new factories and new offices have
been or are being built, and I understand that plans have been made for many
ambitious projects in the future.
"British firms, including many of those exhibiting here today, have
for long been closely connected with Hong Kong's growth and development, and
today's Exhibition should be the means of continuing and strengthening that
tradition of co-operation of which British industry is so proud. The Exhibition
covers a very wide range of the most up-to-date goods and services, and I
hope that it will prove to be a most useful and successful enterprise for all
concerned.
"Ladies and Gentlemen, it gives me much pleasure to declare open
the British Industrial Exhibition."
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