MONDAY, JUNE 10, 1985
MR FUNG TOLD SIR ANTONY THAT THE REMAINING THREE PHASES WOULD BE COMPLETED BY 1992 AND 23 000 PEOPLE WOULD BE ACCOMMODATED IN 5 500 FLATS IN 10 BLOCKS.
FROM LEI CHENG UK, SIR ANTONY MOVED ON TO CHING LAI COURT FOR A HE WAS BRIEFED ON THE EXTENSION OF THE BIRD'S EYE VIEW OF THE AREA. KWAI CHUNG CONTAINER PORT, AND SAW RECLAMATION OF LAI CHI KOK BAY AND MEI FOO SUN CHUEN, WHICH HE THEN VISITED.
THE PRIVATE HOUSING ESTATE, COMPLETED IN 1978, HAS A POPULATION OF 70 000 IN ITS 99 BUILDINGS WHICH CONTAIN 13 110 FLATS.
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AFTER HIS VISIT, SIR ANTONY SAID HE WAS MOST IMPRESSED BY WHAT HE SAW AND THAT THE TREMENDOUS DEVELOPMENT IN HOUSING WAS A +WONDERFUL ACHIEVEMENT+.
SIR ANTONY WILL BE MEETING THE PRESS BRIEFLY AT KAI TAK AIRPORT TOMORROW AFTERNOON WHEN HE LEAVES FOR SHANGHAI, THE NEXT LEG OF HIS FAR EAST TOUR, WHICH WILL INCLUDE PEKING, TOKYO AND SEOUL.
KONG KONG NOW A WORLD PRINTING CENTRE, GOVERNOR SAYS
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HONG KONG WAS ONE OF THE MAIN CENTRES OF HIGH QUALITY PRINTING IN THE WORLD, AND THERE WAS A GROWING MARKET HERE FOR PRINTING EQUIPMENT, MATERIALS AND PRODUCTS, THE GOVERNOR, SIR EDWARD YOUDE, SAID TODAY (MONDAY).
IL OPENING THE WORLD PRINT CONGRESS I THIS MORNING, SIR EDWARD ALSO SAID THAT IN THE LAST FIVE YEARS, THE PRINTING INDUSTRY HAD
IN ACHIEVED AN AVERAGE ANNUAL EXPORT GROWTH OF 23 PER CENT. ABSOLUTE TERMS, DOMESTIC EXPORTS OF PRINTED MATTERS IN 1984 AMOUNTED TO $1 557 MILLION.
THE INDUSTRY RANKED SEVENTH IN TERMS OF EMPLOYMENT AMONG INDUSTRIES IN HONG KONG, AND SERVED A LARGE MARKET, WHICH INCLUDED 65 NEWSPAPERS, 499 MAGAZINES AND PERIODICALS, AS WELL AS MEETING THE DEMANDS OF THE COMMERCIAL AND PACKAGING SECTORS, SIR EDWARD SAID.
+AND SO IT WILL BE EVIDENT TO ALL OF YOU THAT HONG KONG FINDS ITS PRINTING INDUSTRY A VERY IMPORTANT COMPONENT IN ITS ECONOMY, + SIR EDWARD SAID.
/THE HOLDING