4000001 P.R.H. 7
HONG KONG GOVERNMENT
NFORMATION SERVICES
DAILY INFORMATION
BULLETIN
Friday, October 29, 1971
PRINCES: ANNE VISITS CHAN FAMILY
At Hing Wab Resettlemen: Estate
By Alberto da Cruz
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Her Royal Highnes, The Princess Anne spent five minutes with a
Chan family this afternoon in their resettlement flat in the Hing Wah
Estate, but they were enough to justify nearly one month of preparation.
Mr. Chan Ming-hoi formerly a tailor but now a conductor with
the Hong Kong Tramways, his wife and their four children, dressed in their
Sunday best, welcomed the Princess into their small home with smiles breaking
through earlier nervous uncertainty.
Mrs. Chan, a house wife, was in doubt until the last minute about
offering Her Royal Highness a cup of tea. She had wanted to do this as
a symbol of Chinese hospitality, but there was simply no time.
Instead, she smiled her welcome, and then presented her children
two boys and two girls. The elder daughter goes to school under the sponsorship
of the Save the Children Fund.
The Princess had a gracious greeting for them all. She said the flat
was an improvement when Mrs. Chan told her that in the past, the family used
to live in a squatter hut.
The Princess asked the elder daughter if she spoke English.
/"Yes,
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