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HONG KONG GOVERNMENT

NFORMATION

SERVICES

DAILY INFORMATION BULLETIN

SUPPLEMENT

Wednesday, August 2, 1972

GOVERNOR OPENS CROSS HARBOUR TUNNEL

The following is the full text of the speech of the Governor, Sir

Murray MacLehose, at the opening of the cross-harbour tunnel today (August 2,

1972):

"I am most honoured to perform the act of declaring this tunnel open,

on this day that all Hong Kong has so eagerly awaited.

"I do so with some sense of inadequacy because but for the unexpected

speed of the work Her Royal Highness Princess Alexandra would have performed it

with so much more grace and infinitely more charm. I am sure that we are all

delighted that she will nevertheless be associated with the tunnel by unveiling a

plaque during her visit later this year.

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"We are here to celebrate the conclusion of a very great project and the

opening of a very great facility; for once a truly historic occasion the

linking of the Island of Victoria to the peninsula of Kowloon. All Hong Kong

would like to congratulate those who have contributed to this very happy event.

"The list is long and I will not go over the ground already covered

by Mr. Marden, though the great firms he mentioned are very much in all our minds.

But I am sure nobody would grudge it if I mentioned the names of three men who

have in their different ways contributed so much to this project Mr. Hislop,

Mr. Williams and Mr. Brothers.

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