16
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 18, 1975.
LADY MACLEHOSE VISITS WORLD-CLASS CLOCK FACTORY
******
LADY MACLEHOSE SPENT OVER AN HOUR AT THE CHIAP HUA CLOCKS AND WATCHES LIMITED IN KVUN TONG TODAY (WEDNESDAY) WHERE SHE SAW THE WHOLE PROCESS INVOLVED IN THE MAKING OF A CLOCK, LADY MACLE!OSE WAS ACCOMPANIED ON THE VISIT BY MR. K.H. YEUNG, ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF COMMERCE AND
INDUSTRY.
HONG KONG IS ONE OF THE WORLD'S TOP THREE EXPORTERS OF CLOCKS, AND CHIAP HUA, BEING THE ONLY CLOCK FACTORY HERE IS - IN TERMS OF OUTPUT ONE OF THE WORLD'S BIGGEST CLOCK MANUFACTURERS. IT PRODUCES 16,000 CLOCKS A DAY.
-
THE VISIT TO CHIAP HUA THIS MORNING IS THE LATEST IN THE SERIES OF VISITS THE GOVERNOR AND LADY MACLEHOSE ARE MAKING TO FACTORIES IN HONG KONG TO SEE THE PACE OF INDUSTRIAL PROGRESS HERE.
LAST THURSDAY, LADY MACLEHOSE VISITED A DIAMOND CUTTING AND POLISHING FACTORY WHILST SIR MURRAY VISITED A LIGHT BULD AND ELECTRONIC DEVICES FACTORY. TOMORROW
THURSDAY) THE GOVERNOR WILL VISIT A TOY FACTORY IN KENNEDY TOWN.
APART FROM SEEING HOW CLOCK PARTS ARE MADE AND ASSEMBLED, LADY MACLEHOSE WAS THIS MORNING SHOWN THE WHOLE RANGE OF CLOCKS BEING PRODUCED HERE FOR EXPORT WALL CLOCKS, TABLE CLOCKS, TALKING CLOCKS, IMITATION ANTIQUE CLOCKS AND A HOST OF OTHERS:
1
F.S. SPEAKS ON FINANCING THE BUDGET DEFICIT ******
NOTE TO EDITORS:
ww
COPIES OF THE SPEECH TO BE MADE BY MR. C.P. HADDON-CAVE, THE FINANCIAL SECRETARY AT THE CHINESE BANKS' ASSOCIATION DINNER THIS (WEDNESDAY) EVENING HAVE BEEN BOXED FOR YOUR COLLECTION.
THE SPEECH IS ENTITLED 'FINANCING THE BUDGET DEFICIT".
1
J