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Wednesday, January 17, 1973
"It also illustrates the high technical qualifications that
your staff will require. I do thank you for your Company's donation of
scholarships to the polytechnic, which is as generous as it is far-sighted.
It is for the polytechnic to service industry, and it is for industry
to encourage the polytechnie to do so.
"Hong Kong is a great centre of commerce, finance and tourism end
must have good communications, These Cable and Wireless provide today.
I welcome this building and all it contains as a pledge of your company's
determination to continue to provide good communications in the tomorrow of Hong Kong's expanding economy and the multiplicity of communications
which it will demand.
"Sir, I congratulate you on the enterprise contained in this
building New Mercury House, and on the services which it will bring to
Hong Kong, and I have the greatest pleasure in declaring it open."
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