TUESDAY, APRIL 16, 1991

NEW AIRPORT IMPORTANT FOR HK: GOVERNOR

THE GOVERNOR, SIR DAVID WILSON, SAID TODAY (TUESDAY) HE BELIEVED IT WAS IMPORTANT THAT HONG KONG SHOULD HAVE A NEW AIRPORT, WHICH WAS SOMETHING WHICH HONG KONG NEEDED.

SPEAKING то REPORTERS AFTER ATTENDING A MEETING OF THE EXECUTIVE COUNCIL, SIR DAVID SAID: "WE'VE BERN AWARE OF CERTAIN CHINESE CONCERNS AND AT THE END OF LAST WEEK. HAVE PUT FORWARD PROPOSALS IN PEKING, WHICH, I BELIEVE, SHOULD MEET THOSE CONCERNS,

"BUT ALSO, AND THIS IS A VERY IMPORTANT POINT, ENABLE US TO GET AHEAD WITH BUILDING THE AIRPORT IN AN EFFECTIVE, PRACTICAL MANNER, AND ENABLE US TO CARRY OUT THE RESPONSIBILITY THAT WE HAVE FOR THE CONTINUED EFFECTIVE ADMINISTRATION OF HONG KONG," HE SAID.

GOVERNOR PRESENTS INSIGNIA TO 88

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INSIGNIA FOR 88 PEOPLE WERE

PRESENTED

BY THE GOVERNOR, SIR DAVID WILSON, AT A CBREMONY AT GOVERNMENT HOUSE THIS (TUESDAY) EVENING.

SIXTY-RIGHT RECIPIENTS WERE DECORATED OR COMMENDED BY THE QUEEN FOR SERVICES TO THE PUBLIC, WHILE ONE WAS AWARDED THE GOVERNOR'S COMMENDATION.

IN ADDITION, 19 MEMBERS OF THE ST JOHN AMBULANCE ASSOCIATION AND BRIGADE WHOSE COMMUNITY WORK HAS BEEN RECOGNISED BY THE QUEEN, THE SOVEREIGN HEAD OF THE MOST VENERABLE ORDER OF THE HOSPITAL OF ST JOHN OF JERUSALEM, WERE PRESENTED THEIR ST JOHN INSIGNIA BY THE GOVERNOR.

CBE

THE FOLLOWING IS THE LIST OF INSIGNIA RECIPIENTS:

THE HONOURABLE CHEUNG YAN-LUNG

CBE (HON)

DR THE HONOURABLE DANIEL TSE CHI-WAI

OBR

THE HONOURABLE LAU WAH-SUM

THE HONOURABLE DAVID LI KWOK-PO MR JAMES SO YIU-CHO

/OBE (HON)

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