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DAILY INFORMATION BULLETIN
SUPPLEMENT
Monday, May 8, 1978
OPENING ADDRESS BY ACTING CHIEF SECRETARY
AT MINING AND METALLURGICAL CONGRESS
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The following is the full text of speech by the acting Chief
Secretary, Mr. Philip Haddon-Cave, at the opening of the 11th Commonwealth
Mining and Metallurgical Congress at Convention Centre today
Introduction
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On behalf of the Government it gives me great pleasure to
welcome you all to Hong Kong on the occasion of the Eleventh Commonwealth
Mining and Metallurgical Congress. Hong Kong is honoured to have been
chosen as the venue for this Congress. And it affords us a special
pleasure to play host to a Commonwealth meeting. Sir Denys Roberts,
your honorary President in absentia, has asked me to convey to you his
personal best wishes for a successful meeting and enjoyable stay here.
Ladies and gentlemen, I can see that you have a busy week
ahead of you. The Congress handbook lists as many as 71 papers on a
vast range of subjects and I am sure the treatment of each will be
erudite. I shall, therefore, be mercifully brief, is somewhat
simplistic.
Hong Kong
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