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Saturday, June 23, 1973
KUK DELEGATES TOUR NEW BRITISH TOWNS
The Heung Yee Kuk delegation, currently on an official visit to
Britain, has completed a two-day tour to see new towns and urban developments.
They visited, among others, the Department of the Environment yesterday
(June 22) for talks with British officials concerned with land acquisition policy.
Questions of controlling environmental pollution were also raised.
On Thursday (June 21), the 35 Kuk representatives visited the
Crawley New Town some 30 miles south of London, ̈`
Crawley is one of several new towns built since the war to alleviate
overcrowding in London and it is of special interest to people from the New
Territories who are concerned with the problems of integrating Hong Kong's
own urban population overspill.
They also had discussions with staff members of the Crawley New Town
Commission. A number of interesting parallels were drawn between the development
of new towns in Britain and in the New Territories of Hong Kong.
On Wednesday, the delegation gave a dinner party at a restaurant
in Soho in honour of their hosts in London," the Association of Chinese Traders.
Among the guests were the New Territories District Commissioner,
Mr. D.C. Bray who is currently on leave in Britain; two former Commissioners,
Messrs. K.S. Kinghorn and J.T. Wakefield; the Commissioner for Hong Kong,
Mr. A.M.J. Wright, and representatives from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
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