PR 33.
H
香港政府
GIS
新聞處
DAILY INFORMATION BULLETIN
SUPPLEMENT
Wednesday, March 8, 1978
SPEECH BY HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS, THE DUKE OF KENT,
TO THE HONG KONG GENERAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
The following is the full text of speech by HRH, the Duke of
Kent, delivered today (March 8) to the Hong Kong General Chamber of
Commerce at a luncheon gathering at the Ballroom of the Hilton Hotel.
Let me first of all tell you how very pleased and honoured I
am to have this opportunity of addressing such a distinguished gathering
of members and friends of the Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce.
Visiting Hong Kong is always an exciting and stimulating
experience. No one who comes here can fail to be struck by its spectacular
beauty or to be impressed by its extraordinary vitality. In my own case
I have good reasons for being particularly happy to be back here since, as
some of you will know, I lived for a year with my family in the New
Territories as a soldier. That is now fifteen years ago but my wife and
I both have nothing but the happiest recollections of that time and this
is therefore very much more than just a routine visit as far as I am
concerned. It is in every sense a happy return, enabling me to renew
many old contacts and friendships as well as to see something of the
progress that has been made here in the intervening fifteen years. My
interest in Hong Kong therefore is, as well as being professional, a
very close and personal one.
This time
Issued by Government Information Services, Beaconsfield House, Hong Kong. Tel: 5-233191