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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 9, 1985
+BY AGREEMENT WITH THE GOVERNMENT, THE COUNCIL WILL TAKE OVER FROM THE GOVERNMENT THE HONG KONG SHIPPERS' COUNCIL AND THE HONG KONG/JAPAN BUSINESS COOPERATION COMMITTEE,+
APART FROM TRADE PROMOTIONS, THIS YEAR PROMISED TO BE A
WORK WOULD SIGNIFICANT ONE IN OTHER RESPECTS, SAID MISS DUNN. START ON THE HONG KONG INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION CENTRE PROJECT WHICH, WHEN COMPLETED IN 1988, WAS EXPECTED TO BE ASIA'S LARGEST AND MOST SOPHISTICATED PURPOSE-BUILT EXHIBITION AND CONFERENCE COMPLEX.
MORE DEMAND SEEN FOR HK-CHINA FLIGHTS ****
THE QUESTION OF ADDITIONAL AIR SERVICES BETWEEN HONG KONG AND CHINA WOULD BE ON THE AGENDA OF THE TALKS WITH UNITED KINGDOM DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORT OFFICIALS TO BE HELD IN HONG KONG AT THE END OF THIS MONTH, THE SECRETARY FOR ECONOMIC SERVICES, THE HON PIERS JACOBS, SAID TODAY,
REPLYING TO A QUESTION BY THE HON WONG PO-YAN, HE AGREED THAT THERE APPEARED TO BE A GROWING DEMAND FOR FLIGHTS BETWEEN HONG KONG AND A NUMBER OF CHINESE CITIES.
NEGOTIATIONS RELATING TO AIR SERVICES TOUCHING HONG KONG, MR JACOBS CONFIRMED, WERE THE RESPONSIBILITY OF HMG GOVERNMENT.
GUIDANCE AND SUPPORT URGED FOR PROVISIONAL COUNCIL
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SOME GUIDANCE AND SUPPORT WOULD BE NEEDED TO ENSURE THAT THE PROVISIONAL REGIONAL COUNCIL COULD DISCHARGE ITS DUTIES WELL DURING ITS ONE-YEAR LIFE SPAN, THE HON CHEUNG YAN-LUNG SAID TODAY (WEDNESDAY).
SPEAKING IN SUPPORT OF THE PROVISIONAL REGIONAL COUNCIL BILL 1984 IN THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL, MR CHEUNG SAID THERE WAS NO DETAILED PROVISION IN THE BILL ABOUT THE EXECUTIVE SUPPORT TO BE PROVIDED FOR THE PROVISIONAL COUNCIL.
+1 THEREFORE WOULD LIKE TO ASK THE GOVERNMENT TO GIVE THIS POINT DUE CONSIDERATION, HE SAID.
HE SAID HE WAS AWARE OF THE RECENT REORGANISATION EXERCISE THE GOVERNMENT SECRETARIAT.
/HE HOPED