TUESDAY. NOVEMBER 7. 1989
GLITTERING WELCOME FOR ROYAL VISITORS
A GUARD OF HONOUR MOUNTED BY THE ROYAL HONG KONG (THE VOLUNTEERS}. LION DANCERS. A UNICORN DANCE, AND SPECTACULAR GREETED THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS OF WALES AT PLACE THIS EVENING TUESDAY. NOVEMBER 71.
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THE OFFICIAL WELCOME WAS THE FIRST PUBLIC EVENT IN FOUR-DAY SCHEDULE FOR THE ROYAL VISITORS WHICH WILL COVER A WIDE SPECTRUM OF EVENTS AND LOCATIONS ACROSS THE TERRITORY.
THEIR ROYAL HIGHNESSES HAD EARLIER ARRIVED AT HONG KONG
INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT ON BOARD AN RAF VC 10.
THEY WERE RECEIVED AT THE AIRPORT BY THE GOVERNOR. SIR DAVID WILSON. WHO PRESENTED LADY WILSON AND HIS AIDE-DE-CAMP, SUPERINTENDENT GILES RUSSELL. TO THE ROYAL VISITORS.
THE GOVERNOR ALSO PRESENTED THE DIRECTOR OF PROTOCOL AND DIRECTOR ROYAL VISIT. AIR COMMODORE VIVIAN WARRINGTON AND ROYAL HONG KONG POLICE PROTECTION OFFICERS. CHIEF INSPECTOR MIKE DEMAID-GROVES AND SENIOR INSPECTOR PAUL KEYLOCK
PIER,
THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS WERE DRIVEN TO THE PROMONTORY HALF WAY DOWN THE KAI TAK RUNWAY. WHERE THEY BOARDED THE GOVERNOR'S LAUNCH, THE LADY MAURINE. FOR THE TRIP ACROSS THE HARBOUR TO QUEEN'S PIER.
A TOTAL OF 14 LAUNCHES ACCOMPANIED THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS ON THEIR TRIP ACROSS THE HARBOUR. THEY WERE LED BY THE MARINE POLICE'S HARBOUR DIVISION COMMAND LAUNCH. POLICE
79.
ON BOARD WAS SUPERINTENDENT ROD COLSON, CHARGED WITH ENSURING THAT VICTORIA HARBOUR WAS KEPT CLEAR FOR THE ROYAL ESCORT.
POLICE 79 WAS FLANKED ON EACH SIDE BY TYPHOON-TYPE INFLATABLE BOATS FROM THE MARINE POLICE'S SMALL BOAT UNIT.
FLANKING THE LADY MAURINE WERE TWO AUSTRALIAN-BUILT SHARKCATS. THE FASTEST VESSELS IN THE GOVERNMENT FLEET. AND TWO MORE TYPHOON-TYPE INFLATABLES.
ASTERN OF THE LADY MAURINE WAS THE MARINE POLICE'S EASTERN DIVISION COMMAND LAUNCH. POLICE 3. ON BOARD WAS SUPERINTENDENT ROGER TRITTON WHO CO-ORDINATED THE ROYAL ESCORT.
ON ARRIVAL AT QUEEN'S PIER THE GOVERNOR PRESENTED) TO THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS OF WALES THE CHIEF JUSTICE, SIR TI LIANG YANG AND LADY YANG: THE CHIEF SECRETARY. SIR DAVID FORD AND LADY FORD: THE COMMANDER BRITISH FORCES. MAJOR GENERAL PETER DUFFEL AND MRS DUFFEL! SENIOR EXECUTIVE COUNCIL MEMBER DAME LYDIA DUNN AND HER HUSBAND MR MICHAEL THOMAS: AND SENIOR LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL MEMBER MR ALLEN LEE AND MRS LEE. AND THE SECRETARY ROYAL VISIT. MR PETER HARVEY.
/THE COMMANDER