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DAILY INFORMATION BULLETIN
SUPPLEMENT
Thursday, August 31, 1978
SPEECH BY H.E. THE GOVERNOR AT THE INAUGURATION CEREMONY OF THE 23rd TERM OF THE FBỨNG YEE KUK
It is six years since I attended the last Inauguration Ceremony
of the Twentieth Tem of the Heung Yee Kuk in 1972 and on that occasion,
I spoke about your Government's plana for the three parts of the New
Territories the new towns, the surrounding low-land rural areas and the
undeveloped countryside. I would like to review briefly how far we have
travelled towards the goals I described six years ago.
The development of the new towns is now firmly on its way. The
original reclamation of the sea at Shatin is virtually complete and plans for
its extension are far advanced. Large areas of the valley are being prepared
for development and housing estates for about 145,000 people are in various
stages of construction; there is employment, tool at hand for the people in
the nearby industrial centre at Fo Tan.
At Tsuen Wan development has moved into the northem part of the
town and has been accelerated by the extension of the Mass Transit Railway.
Work is also in hand to improve the older densely populated part of the
tom; housing estates are already occupied on Tsing Yi which, in the last
six years, has also developed as an important industrial area. At the
/third new town, .....
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