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Transcript of the Governor's media session
The following is a transcript of the Governor, the Rt Hon Christopher Patten's media session after visiting the Royal Observatory this (Wednesday) afternoon:
Governor: I'm delighted that I have the first chance of coming because the team here at the Royal Observatory do a superb job, not just as you know weather forecasting but doing so many other things as well from their work at Kai Tak and Chek Lap Kok to their work on monitoring radiation levels and seismographic work. They are really highly professional team and given the importance of weather conditions here in Hong Kong, and the emergencies those extreme conditions sometimes cause, I was pleased to see the work being carried out in such a thoroughly professional way. So, I congratulate the new director and I'm pleased that he's got such a first class team.
Question: Mr Patten, after your crash course in meteorology today, what's your...
Governor: This is very clever, this is the use of metaphor in questions. What is my predictions for ...
Question: What's your weather predictions for summer?
Governor: What are my weather predictions for the summer?
Director of Royal Observatory: ....... It's been very dry so far.
Governor: It's been very dry so far. I think it will be very warm with occasional showers.
Question: Can it be applied to the Sino-British...
Governor: Ah, that's the sort of question I thought I was going to get. I think we all hope that there'll be more sunshine and fewer clouds. We all hope that we are moving towards an agreement on important issues like the Financial Support Agreements for the Airport Authority and the MTRC and we hope that we'll move towards agreements on other matters as well - agreements which are in the interest of Hong Kong. I think that's what everybody would like to see because there's a lot of work still to do over the next couple of years to make sure that the SAR Government can get off to the best possible start.
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