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DAILY INFORMATION BULLETIN

Saturday, October 21, 1972

PRINCESS UNVEILS PLAQUE AT CROSS-HARBOUR TUNNEL

Project Symbolises Stature Of New Hong Kong

Her Royal Highness Princess Alexandra said today (Saturday) that

the cross-harbour tunnel symbolised the stature of the new Hong Kong.

She was speaking at the Cross-Harbour Tunnel Company where she

unveiled a plaque outside the Administration' Building to commemorate the

completion of what she described as a "bold and successful venture.",

The Chairman of the Cross-Harbour Tunnel Company, Mr. J.L. Marden,

presented to the Princess, as a memento of the occasion, a silver cigarette

box containing gold, silver and bronze commemorative medallions.

Addressing the gathering, Princess Alexandra said: "We are both

of us particularly pleased to be back in Hong Kong for today's ceremony,

for we realize full well that the building of the Cross-Harbour Tunnel is an

important and significant milestone in the history of Hong Kong.

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"To have completed such a vast project in the short space of three

years is a truly remarkable feat in itself, but this undertaking signifies

very much more than the construction of a quick and convenient means of

crossing the harbour.

"Not only

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