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香港政府

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DAILY INFORMATION BULLETIN

Saturday, September 16, 1972

SHIPPERS' MEETING BEGINS ON MONDAY

The Director of Commerce and Industry, Mr. Jack Cater, will address

the opening session of the 10-day ECAFE meeting on Shippers' Co-operation in

Hong Kong on Monday (September 18).

The opening ceremony begins at 10 a.m. at the City Hall Theatre

and will be attended by ECAFE officials and delegates from 19 members and

associate members of ECAFE.

The meeting proper will then move to the Colonial Secretariat for

the lectures, discussions and presentation of reports on various problems

related to shipping.

Hong Kong's delegates to the meeting will be Mr. G.A. Milward, Acting

Principal Marine Officer; Mr. Jonathan Ng, Acting Trade Officer, Department

of Commerce and Industry; Mrs. S. Yuen, Secretary of the Hong Kong Shippers'

Council; Mr. J.P. Lee, Secretary General of the Chinese Manufacturers'

Association; and Mr. Chung Sze-leung, Manager, International Trade Department,

Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce.

The meeting will be the third on shipping to be organised under

the auspices of ECAFE.

The first, held in Bangkok in January 1970, was on shipping economics

and administrative policy and the second, held in Singapore in May this

year, was on the management of tramps, tankers and purpose-built tonnage.

The present

Issued by Government Information Services, Beaconsfield House, Hong Kong. Tel: 5-233191