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our expert advice.

There were consultations with the Nuffield Hospitals

Trust, and then we engaged a firm of architects expert in designing hospitals,

Messrs. Easton and Robertson, and I am glad that we have one of the partnera

of that firm with us today, Mr. Cusdin,

"I am sure, as Dr. Mackenzie has said, that he and his partners will

be well satisfied with this fine hospital.

"And, then, you have heard the Director's relation of the part which

the University's Faculty of Medicine and Government's own Clinical

Specialists have played, of the work of Miss Schofield, Principal Matron,

and her staff in the training of nurses, of the operational role of

Dr. Hollway and his colleagues in association with Mr. Hirst and Mr. Wong

and their colleagues in the Public Works Department who, in turn, have been

able to draw on the resources and skill of the contractors.

"You have heard his tribute to what he called 'the legion of the

unnamed', all who, in some way or other, have helped to determine the shape

and content, nay, the vary existence of these buildings. And there have

been the Unofficial members of Finance Committee, who have rendered such

invaluable service both on the original Interdepartmental Committee and on

the subsequent Kowloon Hospital Progress Committee, which were formed when

I was Colonial Secretary.

"Lastly, do not let us forget the officers in the Colonial

Secretariat, who have been involved throughout; their work has been

essential and devoted."

Prowl Achievement

"To all of then Hong Kong is grateful. We can view this

achievement with pride and satisfaction, but certainly not with complacency.

"The opening of the Queen Elizabeth Hospital is an important event

in the history of medical services in Hong Kong, but we must see in this a

stimulus, see it as an opened gate, through which we pass on at once, rather

than as a stile on which, having climbed, we rest awhile.

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