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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1989
MR
BY
SOME OF THE GUESTS WERE PRESENTED TO THE PRINCE OF WALES FORSGATE WHILE OTHERS WERE PRESENTED TO HER ROYAL HIGHNESS BY MRS
FORSGATE.
THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS OF WALES UNVEILED A PLAQUE IN THE FOYER TO MARK THE OCCASION AND MR. FORSGATE INVITED THEIR ROYAL HIGHNESSES TO ACCEPT A COMMEMORATIVE BOOKLET OF PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE CULTURAL CENTRE.
THEIR ROYAL HIGHNESSES LEFT FOR MY BRITANNIA BY CAR.
ROYAL VISITOR TRAVELS BY TUBE
THE PRINCE OF WALES HAD A DRIVER'S EYE-VIEW OF THE MASS TRANSIT RAILWAY TODAY (WEDNESDAY) WHEN HE TRAVELLED IN THE DRIVER'S CABIN OF A TRAIN BETWEEN LAM TIN AND QUARRY BAY STATIONS.
HE ROUNDED OFF HIS UNDERGROUND TRIP BY TRAVELLING IN A NORMAL ISLAND LINE TRAIN FROM QUARRY BAY TO ADMIRALTY.
THE TRIP CAME AT THE END OF A VISIT TO THE NEW EASTERN HARBOUR TUNNEL WHEN HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS UNVEILED TWO PLAQUES TO COMMEMORATE THE OPENING OF THE TUNNEL AND THE SECOND MTR LINK ACROSS VICTORIA HARBOUR.
THE PRINCE OF WALES ARRIVED AT THE EASTERN HARBOUR TUNNEL BY CAR AFTER LAYING THE FOUNDATION STONE OF THE HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AT CLEARWATER BAY.
THE $4 BILLION TUNNEL WAS BUILT BY THE NEW HONGKONG TUNNEL CO. A CONSORTIUM COMPRISING JAPAN'S KUMAGAI GUMI [56.25%): THE MAINLAND CHINESE BANKING AND BUSINESS CORPORATION. CHINA INTERNATIONAL TRUST AND INVESTMENT CORPORATION (CITIC). WHICH OWNS 24.5 PER CENT: HONG KONG'S PAUL Y CONSTRUCTION CO (6.65 %); THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT 15 % BRITAIN'S LILLEY CONSTRUCTION CO 14.76%) AND JAPAN'S MARUDENI CORPORATION (2.85%).
DESIGNED
THE MAIN CONTRACTOR WAS KUMAGAI GUMI WHILE PAUL Y AND CONSTRUCTED THE APPROACH ROADS ON HONG KONG ISLAND AND THE QUARRY DAY MASS TRANSIT RAILWAY STATION.
TO BUILD THE TUNNEL A DRY DOCK WAS CREATED IN A QUARRY AT CHA KWO LING ON THE KOWLOON SIDE. HERE, HUGE PRECAST CONCRETE "BOXES" WERD BUILT IN THREE BATCHES OF FIVE. THEY RANGED IN LENGTH FROM 122 TO 128 METRES AND EACH WAS 34.45 METRES WIDE AND 9.75 METRES DEEP AND WEIGHED UP TO 42.800 TONNES.
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