Saturday, September 1, 1973
GOVERNOR SPEAKS AT LAUNCHING CEREMONY IN GLASGOW
The Governor, Sir Murray MacLehose, has attributed Hong Kong's
achievement to its people, whom he described as magnificient, and to the
sheer energy and dynamism of the place.
He was speaking during the launching by Lady MacLehose of a bulk
carrier, Golden Oriole, in Glasgow earlier this week,
The 26,000-ton vessel is built for Worldwide Shipping Group, Hong
Kong, by Govan Shipbuilders Limited of Scotland.
Sir Murray pointed out that many stories printed about Hong Kong
were so often about things that were bad, such as the increase in crime
rate and the decline of the stock market.
"But this is not Hong Kong," said Sir Murray.
Hong Kong, he said, is one of the most beautiful as well as one
a centre of manufacture, commerce,
of the greatest cities in the world
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of finance and communications and of tourism.
"It has achieved this not through aid, but from its own resources
a superb natural harbour and its people of all races," he said.
The Governor stressed that it is the population, the capacity for
hard work, for commercial enterprise, for resilience and determination to
survive that has made Hong Kong one of the largest trading units in the world.
Sir Murray went on to say that though Hong Kong is well know in
the United Kingdom for its manufacture it is not yet so well known for its
shipping.
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