NOTE TO EDITORS:
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MONDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1983
GOVERNOR LEAVING FOR PEKING TOMORROW
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A FACILITY HAS BEEN ARRANGED FOR PRESS PHOTOGRAPHERS AND CAMERAMEN TO COVER THE DEPARTURE OF THE GOVERNOR, SIR EDWARD YOUDE, FOR PEKING TOMORROW (TUESDAY).
SIR EDWARD, ACCOMPANIED BY THE POLITICAL ADVISER MR ROBIN MCLAREN, WILL BE LEAVING ON FLIGHT CA 102, ETD 12.45 PM.
PLEASE ADVISE THOSE ASSIGNED TO COVER THE DEPARTURE TO ASSEMBLE IN THE PRESS CONFERENCE ROOM ON THE GROUND FLOOR OF THE AIRPORT TERMINAL BUILDING NOT LATER THAN 11.30 AM TOMORROW. GIS OFFICERS WILL BE ON HAND TO ASSIST.
BIG EFFORT PUT INTO LONG-TERM WORKS
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CONSIDERABLE EFFORT IS BEING PUT INTO PREPARATIONS FOR HONG KONG'S LONG-TERM DEVELOPMENT THROUGH THE 1990S AND INTO THE NEXT CENTURY.
SPEAKING TODAY AT THE INNAUGURAL CEREMONY OF THE SECOND SOUTH-EAST ASIAN BURVEY CONGRESS, MR NICKY CHAN, SECRETARY FOR LANDS AND WORKS, SAID THAT THIS WAS A GENERAL RÉFLECTION OF CONFIDENCE IN THE FUTURE OF HONG KONG.
MR CHAN TOLD THE CONFERENCE, HOSTED BY THE ROYAL INSTITUTION OF CHARTERED SURVEYORS (HONG KONG BRANCH), AND THE HONG KONG INSTITUTE OF LAND SURVEYORS, THAT IT HAD BEEN SAID THAT HONG KONG WAS ONE VAST CONSTRUCTION SITE.
THERE WERE A NUMBER OF DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMMES IN HAND SUCH AS THE PUBLIC HOUSING AND NEW TOWN PROGRAMMES, THE MASS TRANSIT RAILWAY PROJECTS, THE SCHOOL AND HOSPITAL BUILDING PROGRAMMES, AND THE HIGHWAY IMPROVEMENT PROGRAMME, HE SAID.
+THESE VAST DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMMES WILL CARRY US THROUGH TO THE END OF THE 1980S AND A LITTLE FURTHER, BUT THE TASK OF SUSTAINING GROWTH IN THE PROVISION OF LAND FOR HOUSING, INDUSTRY AND ALL THE OTHER SOCIO-ECONOMIC REQUIREMENTS, INCLUDING TRANSPORT INFRASTRUCTURE RELATED TO OUR INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL NEEDS, IS OF SUCH A MAGNITITUDE THAT WE MUST DECIDE NOW HOW TO PROCEED IN THE 1990S IF OUR PLANS ARE TO COME TO FRUITION IN TIME, HE SAID.
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