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Monday, May 5, 1975
STUDY GROUP'S.
INFORMAL MEETING WITH
DUKE OF EDINBURGH
Prince Philip this evening met members of the Duke of
Edinburgh's Study Conference at an informal gathering in Government
House.
There have been four such conferences chaired by the Duke of
Edinburgh himself. The first was in 1957 in Oxford. The second took
place in Canada in 1962. The third was in 1968 in Australia, and the
fourth in 1974, again in Oxford.
Eight Hong Kong residents who had taken part in these conferences
were present at this evening's neating with the Duke. Also attending
were the Financial Secretary, Mr. Philip Haddon-Cave, and the Director
of Commerce and Industry, Mr. David Jordan.
Spokesman for the group, Mr. Dennis H.S. Ting, managing director
of Kader Industrial Company Limited, said he had attended the last
conference in 1974 at Oxford. He recalled it was then that he heard
Prince Philip say, at a farewell dinner at Christ Church, he would be
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