PR 33 2000035
HK 香港政府 GIS 新聞處
DAILY INFORMATION BULLETIN SUPPLEMENT
Wednesday, October 16, 1974
SPEECH BY HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR, SIR MURRAY MACLEHOSE
AT THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL ON OCTOBER 16, 1974
Last year I spoke to you shortly before the outbreak
of the Arab/Israeli war and the drastic change in the cost of
oil, the savage twist to world inflation and all the related
financial and other problems which followed.
The year which ensued has not been easy for Hong
Kong though it has been better than might have been expected.
And though I expect the year which now begins to be better in
Hong Kong than in many other cities in the world, it too will
probably not be easy either. This coincides with a period during
which in any case your government has thought it right to take
stock, and to consolidate and maintain progress in its existing
fields of endeavour, rather than to launch out into new ones.
In the last quarter century life in Hong Kong has
been dominated by the way in which the growth in population
out-stripped the capacity of any government to provide
for residents and immigrants alike some of the basic infra-
structure of life. But the problem was faced and very great
progress was made. So much so, that two years ago your
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