PR 33
香港政府
GIS
【新聞處
DAILY INFORMATION BULLETIN
SUPPLEMENT
SPEECH BY HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR SIR EDWARD YOUDE, GOLG, MBE, AT THE EIGHTH ANNUAL DINNER OF THE HONG KONG
INSTITUTION OF ENGINEERS
ON FRIDAY, 25 MARCH 1983
Mr President, Ladies and Gentlemen,
I was very grateful to you for your invitation to attend this your Eighth Annual Dinner and I have listened with great interest to your speech this evening.
It also gave me great pleasure last year to accept your invitation to become your patron. I hope that my acceptance of that invitation will have indicated to you the importance which the Government attaches to a progressive, enterprising, and highly qualified Engineering profession in Hong Kong. Virtually all of the industries on which Hong Kong's economy is based require engineers of one sort or another, either directly in connection with the industrial process or in the distribution and marketing of its products. The Government itself is responsible
for something like half of the engineering works carried out in the construction field here and employs several hundred engineers of several varieties within the government service. It can thus be said that your profession is important to the lives of us all.
We
I would expect the opportunities for you to make your contribution to our economy not only to continue but to increase. may be going through hard times, but no-one who has studied Government announcements on this subject ought to be in any doubt that although there may have been a reduction in the rate of increase in Coverment spending there has been no "cut-back" in public works expenditure. New engineering projects which are expected to start in 1983/84 include such items as Phase 1 of Stage 3 of the Island Eastern Corridor; the New Territories Circular Road improvements from Fan Kan Road to Lok Ma Chau,
/further works
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