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Thursday, January 11, 1973

BETTER PRODUCT DESIGN MEANS HIGHER PROFITS

Govern Speaks At Design Award Presentation

The Governor, Sir Murray MacLehose, said this evening that

better industrial design meant "higher profits and fuller order books,"

He was speaking at the presentation of the Governor's Award

for Hong Kong Design at Government House.

The design competition was organised by the Federation of

Hong Kong Industries.

Sir Murray said: "Traditionally Hong Kong has manufactured goods

to the specifications of buyers elsewhere. Now we are being made conscious

of a need to manufacture goods to designs which are our own."

With the need the talen: to meet it has emerged rapidly. The

standard of this year's entries indicates how fast this talent has

matured," he added.

There were 67 entries this year.

The Governor's Award was won by Ampex Ferrotec Ltd. for their

automatic stack-array tester.

Sir Murray congratulated the company and their designers for

their "consistently high performance" in the field of electronic testing

equipment.

Turning to winners of the other awards, he said their products were

"a clear indication of what Hong Kong can achieve" and hoped that "their

efforts will simulate further local research and development in the

design field,"

The Governor ******