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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1983
STATE MINISTER EXPRESSES CONDOLENCES
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MR RICHARD LUCE, MINISTER OF STATE FOR FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS WITH SPECIAL RESPONSIBILITIES FOR HONG KONG, HAS SENT A MESSAGE TO THE GOVERNOR, SIR EDWARD YOUDE, EXPRESSING HIS CONDOLENCES TO PEOPLE WHO HAVE SUFFERED AS A RESULT OF TYPHOON ELLEN.
IN HIS TELEGRAM, MR LUCE ALSO CONGRATULATED THE EMERGENCY SERVICES FOR COPING SO WELL WITH THE STORM.
THE TEXT OF MR LUCE'S TELEGRAM READS:
+ WAS MOST SADDENED TO HEAR OF THE RECENT DEATHS AND INJURIES CAUSED BY TYPHOON ELLEN. PLEASE PASS MY CONDOLENCES TO THE FAMILIES OF THE DECEASED AND MY SYMPATHY TO THE INJURED AND THOSE WHOSE HOUSES WERE DAMAGED.
+GLAD TO KNOW EMERGENCY SERVICES COPING SO WELL. MY WARMEST CONGRATULATIONS.+
MR HEATH VISITS NEW TOWNS ***
THE FORMER BRITISH PRIME MINISTER, MR EDWARD HEATH, VISITED TWO NEW TOWNS THIS (TUESDAY) AFTERNOON TO SEE DEVELOPMENTS THERE.
MR HEATH FIRST SPENT HALF AN HOUR AT THE LION'S PAVILION IN SHA TIN WHERE HE HAD A PANORAMIC VIEW OF THE NEW TOWN AND WAS BRIEFED ON HOUSING AND OTHER DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS BY THE DISTRICT OFFICER, MR DONALD TSANG, AND AN ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICER OF THE DISTRICT LANDS OFFICE, MR RICHARD BURN.
HE ALSO LEARNT THAT SINCE HIS LAST VISIT TO SHA TIN IN APRIL 1978, THE POPULATION THERE HAD GROWN FROM 80 000 TO ITS PRESENT 210 000.
HE THEN WENT TO TUEN MUN, WHERE HE WAS BRIEFED BY THE DISTRICT OFFICER, MR RICKY FUNG, AND THE PROJECT MANAGER MR S.K. KWEI ON SOME OF THE PROJECTS TAKING PLACE IN THE NEW TOWN.
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