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LIU:
ON A PERSONAL LEVEL, WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE TO SEE ACHIEVED
NEXT YEAR THAT YOU FAILED TO IN 1988?
GOVERNOR: WELL, IF YOU ASK ME WHAT PERSONALLY I WOULD LIKE TO DO MORE IN 1989, I THINK THE ANSWER WOULD BE, I WOULD LIKE TO GET OUT OF MY OFFICE EVEN MORE THAN I DO AT THE MOMENT. I FIND THAT GOING AROUND HONG KONG IS SOMETHING WHICH IS ENORMOUSLY IMPORTANT. THERE IS SO MUCH HAPPENING HERE, THAT I WANT NOT JUST TO SEE IT BUT TO GIVE MY OWN SUPPORT TO WHAT IS HAPPENING, AND I FIND IT IMMENSELY ENCOURAGING WHEN I GET A CHANCE TO GO OUT AND SEE WHAT PEOPLE ARE DOING IN THIS VERY ENERGETIC AND, I THINK, VERY COMMITTED COMMUNITY, 80 Τ SHOULD LIKE TO BE OUT AND ABOUT EVEN MORE THAN I HAVE MANAGED TO DO IN 1988.
HILTON: IF I CHIP IN THERE, SIR DAVID, WE STILL HAVE A MINUTE OR SO LEFT. YOU ARE A MAN WHO DOES GET OUT AND ABOUT A LOT AND YOU A GREAT LOVER OF THE COUNTRYSIDE. COULD I ASK YOU HOW CONFIDENT YOU ARE THAT HONG KONG IS GOING TO REMAIN THE PLEASANT AND GREEN PLACE THAT SO MUCH OF IT IS TODAY?
HAVE ΤΟ GOT AND DEAL
GOVERNOR: I AM DETERMINED TO DO WHATEVER I CAN то MAKE SURR THAT IT DOES. I MEAN, SOME OF THOSE COUNTRY PARKS WHERE YOU AND I HAVE BUMPED INTO EACH OTHER AT WEEKENDS ARE SUPERB AND WE HAVE GOT ABOUT, WHAT IS IT, 40 PER CENT OF THE WHOLE TERRITORY IS COUNTRY PARK. WE NEED TO KEEP THAT AS A FORM OF RECREATION, AS A LUNG AS IT WERE FOR THE COMMUNITY, SO WE HAVE TO PRESERVE THAT. AND THEN WE DO MORE THAN THAT, WE HAVE TO IMPROVE WHAT WE HAVE ALREADY THIS IS THE ENVIRONMENTAL QUESTION WHICH I HAVE DEVOTED A OF EFFORT AND PERSONAL COMMITMENT TO. THE TIME HAS NOW COME WHEN I BELIEVE THE COMMUNITY WANTS THE ENVIRONMENT TO
IMPROVED AND THE COMMUNITY IS PREPARED TO SPEND A GREATER PART OF OUR RESOURCES DOING AND THAT EXACTLY FITS IN WITH MY OWN PERSONAL COMMITMENT TO DO PRECISELY THE SAME THING.
IT.
DAVID,
HILTON: WELL, I WOULD LIKE TO THANK YOU VERY MUCH, SIR FOR COMING ALONG AND TALKING TO US TODAY AND ALSO TO YOUR STALWART INTERVIEWERS, BETTY LIU AND CHRIS BALE. TO THE THREE OF YOU, THANK YOU VERY MUCH INDEED.