ROYAL VISIT PRESS RELEASE
Thursday, May 1, 1975
BEHIND THE SCENES FOR THE ROYAL VISIT
The Queen's visit to Hong Kong next week will climax months
of preparation that have involved dozens of people concerned with the
many aspects of her brief but crowded itinerary.
A Government spokesman pointed out today that the amount of
detailed behind-the-scenes planning required for such an event was
enormous' and far too complex to contain within the confines of a
single team of organisers.
Guiding all these preparations through their long weeks of
planning and rehearsal has been a amall steering committee chaired by
the Governor, Sir Murray MacLehose. The members of the committee are:
Sir Yuet-keung Kan, Senior Unofficial Member of the Executive Council,
Mr. A. de O. Sales, Chairman of the Urban Council, Lady Gordon,
Mr. Denys Roberts, the Colonial Secretary, Mr. Denis Bray, Secretary for
Home Affairs, Brigadier R. G. Lewthwaite, Director of the Royal Visit
Office, Mr. Roy Henry, Deputy Commissioner of Police, and Col. Patrick
Palmer.
Looking forward to the outcome of all this effort, the spokes-
man commented: "The steering committee, and everyone else concerned,
will feel rewarded if the evidence of all the work they have put into
it goes totally unnoticed when the programme swings into effect, because
the measure of real efficiency of planning lies in the degree to which it
remains behind the scenes.
Meanwhile,