PR 33
H K
香港政府
GIS 新聞處
DAILY INFORMATION BULLETIN
SUPPLEMENT
SPEECH BY THE GOVERNOR, SIR MURRAY MACLEHOSE, GBJ, KCMG, KCVO, AT THE HIGH ISLAND WATER SCHEME INAUGURATION CEREMONY, NOVEMBER 27, 1978
We are here to celebrate an extraordinary achievement. Hong
Kong's story is one of improbabilities that Hong Kong people have made come
true, but this is exceptional even for Hong Kong.
The site of this reservoir dans no notable river; is not in the centre of a natural catchment area; has not even one end closed by a natural feature and yet it has been made into the greatest reservoir in
Hong Kong nearly doubling our storage capacity.
All that is best in Hong Kong results from the collaboration of people of many races. We are inaugurating today the work of Chinese and Europeans: the Cantonese, Hakka and Hoklo, Italians, British, Swedes, Germans and French. They all worked together and we see their success.
The result could never have been achieved without the professionalism and imagination and determination of the engineers, and the expertise and hard work of the contractors and their workforce...
But when one considers the 15 million tons of soil and rock excavated or moved to make and effect this complex, the 40 kilometres of tunnels completed; and 36 million tons of rockfill placed; the nine pumping stations with a combined power that could propel a 15,000 ton liner when one considers all this and sees the result before us it seems to me yet another proof, if proof were needed, that Hong Kong can do it.
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