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Governor: People would only say that if they were extremely silly and very conspiratorial and I am sure that that doesn't go for any of you. I am meeting British businessmen for the same reasons that I've met American, Australian, French, that I've met businessmen from every part of this community and will go on meeting businessmen. I've spoken to businessmen in public at meetings organised by newspapers and periodicals. I've spoken to businessmen in private at meetings organised by journals and newspapers. So I've met businessmen regularly, will continue to do so and sometimes at their requests it's on record, sometimes at their requests it's off the record. But I say the same thing as you know in public that I say in private and in private that I say in public.
Question: Do you expect the turnout for this week's elections?
Governor: I hope it will be as encouraging as it was for the District Board and Municipal Council elections. Obviously, the important thing is the number of people who go out to vote. We've got far more people registered to vote. So you've to have only the same turnout rates to see a very large increase in the number of people actually voting. That's by and large what happened in the District Board and Municipal Council elections. I think there's been a lot of interest in these elections and so far as you know the debate has been conducted in a pretty reasonable and moderate way. Thank you very much.
End/Monday, September 11, 1995
STI to attend ministerial meeting
The Secretary for Trade and Industry, Mr Chau Tak-hay, will leave tomorrow (Tuesday) to attend the Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation (APEC) Ministerial Meeting on Small and Medium Enterprises (SME).
The meeting, to be held in Adelaide, Australia, on Thursday and Friday (September 14 and 15), is the second APEC SME Ministerial Meeting. The last one was held in October last year in Osaka, Japan.
Subjects to be discussed include the impact of a free trade environment on SMEs and the major problems encountered by the SMEs. It is expected that the APEC Ministers will endorse a programme of actions to be carried out by APEC to address these problems.