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The last section showed the Royal couple massive projects in the pipeline for the future, including the Underground Mass Transit

System, housing schemes to provide homes for some 1.5 million people,

urban redevelopment schemes, Kai Tak International Airport, hospital

and waterworks projects.

Staged by the Trade Development Council, with the Governor

heading the Organising Committee, the exhibition will be open to the public free of charge for seven days starting tomorrow (Tuesday)

between 10 a.m. and 9. p..

As the Royal couple emerged from the Exhibition Hall, they

were presented with a brochure of Progress Hong Kong in embroidered

folders.

The Queen then went over to talk with some of the workers

building the Hung Hom Railway Terminal, which is the largest single

construction job now under way. The new terminus is in it final stages

of completion and will replace the present Tsim Sha Tsui Railway

Terminus at the tip of Kowloon peninsula in autumn.

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