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Tuesday, May 6, 1975
QUEEN VISITS NEW TERRITORIES
This morning, while the Duke of Edinburgh flew under an over-
cast sky by helicopter, to the Chinese University, the Queen boarded a
hover ferry to visit the Tsuen Wan Sports Ground.
Before leaving Queen's Pier, the Governor presented the managing director of the Hong Kong and Yaumati Ferry Company, Mr. Lau Chan-kwok,
and the general manager, Mr. Edmund T.C. Lau.
While she was crossing the harbour the band of the Brigade of Gurkhas was entertaining the crowd of about 6,000 at the sports ground by
marching and counter-marching to the tunes of their regimental March,
+Lutzow Wild Hunt+, +Marching Through Georgia+, +Golden Spurs+, +Clochemerle+
and +The road to the Isles+.
When the hover ferry, flying the Royal Standard, arrived at Tsuen
Wan the Governor presented to the Queen the Secretary for the New Territories, Mr. David Akers-Jones, the District Police Commander, Mr. M.C. Illingworth,
and the District Officer of Tsuen Wan, Mr. J.A. Hayes.
The Queen then entered the sports ground, where she waved to the
crowd, most of whom were children from schools in the New Territories. Her
arrival was announced by a fanfare of 12 bugles.
Her costume and wide-brimmed hat was voted by at least one woman
in the ground as the most attractive she has yet worn during the visit.
Mr. Akers-Jones
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