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DAILY INFORMATION BULLETIN
SUPPLEMENT
Wednesday, January 24, 1973
GOVERNOR ON HONG KONG-JAPAN TRADE
On Occasion Of Launching Of Tanker In Sasebo
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The Governor, Sir Murray MacLehose, today spoke on trade between
Hong Kong and Japan on the occasion of the launching of the tanker,
"World Victoria," in Sasebo, Japan.
The following is the full text of the Governor's speech:
"I would first like to thank Mr. Pao and President Nakamura for
the honour they have done my wife in inviting her to name "The World
Victoria'. It is a great pleasure that Mayor Oshima of Osaka and Mayor
Tsuji of Sasebo are able to be present. This occasion is made the more
delightful for my wife and myself because of the presence of so many
distinguished friends from Hong Kong, several of whom play a major part
in Hong Kong's commercial relations with Japan.
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"The ship is a tribute on the one hand to the enterprise of
World Maritine Bahamas and its constituent bodies mainly the Hongkong
and Shanghai Banking Corporation and World-Wide Shipping, and on the
other to the skill of the Sasebo Heavy Industries Company.
It is yet a
further example of what can be achieved when the businesamen of Hong
Kong and Japan collaborate. I would like to solicit your attention for
a few minutes for this theme of commercial collaboration between Japan
and Hong Kong, even if it takes us temporarily away from the ship.
"Because
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