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VI GESPAY, APRIL 10, 1974

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I LI Y TO COST AT K J AS IT JA LIS2, 7... IS 1 SAY

+OUR OWN BILL FOR OIL, FOR LEAST TWICE AS MUCH This YEM

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ABOUT $300 MILLION MORE.+

HONG KONG HAS LOT, ROJEVEL, THE VOISESFECLID, 14. HZOCON- CAVE SAID, OTHER CULSUMILG TERRITORIES WITH CHRUMIC FUMEIGN EXCHANGE DIFFICULTIES VEND LIKELY TO BE MORE SENTOUSLY HIT AND THERE WAS SOME DAIKEN OF A SWING 30ML in tHE GROOTH OF WORLD TA

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+THIS IS A QUESTION WHICH WE IN HONG KONG ON OUR OWN CAN DO LITTLE TO LIF

+ SAID, 12, 17, 18 MY A JES THAT EVERY EFFORT WILL BE MAƆ. BY THE TREMINTIÇA COMMITT MS A WHOLE TO AVOID THE VORST DANGERS.+

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CALL FOR EASING LIGHTING RESTLICTIONS

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THE HON, OSWALD CHEUNG TODAY CALLED FIJ REVIZU OF THE MANDATORY RESTRICTIONS CA THE US OF ELIOLICITY ........D SUGGESTED [HAT PERHAPS TO TIME HAD COME TO MALA M.

+TO ALLOW SHOPS TO EXIGHTEN UP WOULD BE BENEFICIAL ALL ROUND, ALD NOT LEAST IT WOULD KILP TO DISPEL CULE OF THAT STYGI. GLOOM ILTU UHICH OUR CITY WAS DZIU CAET, AT A COST,

IN TĒRNS OF ELECTRICITY A.D FUEL CUNSULED, UNICH IS MINISCULE,+ HE SAID DURING THE DES..TE ON THE GIL SITUATION.

IT SHOULD BE BURNE IN MILD, HE SAID, TILT THE PUBLIC HAD ACTED RESPONSIBLY SINCE DIGEL III GO-UPERATING WITH THE GUYERIMENT IN EFFORTS TO CUNISLAVE FUEL.

A LARGE NUMBER OF PEOPLE WERE ENÇACTO IN RETAIL TRADE AND SHOPS WITHUJT LIGHTED WILDOUS AND VITROUT LIGHTED DISPLAY CASES LOST THEIR ATTRACTION AID, CULSEQUCNTLY, BUSINESS.

THIS LUSS OF BUSINESS, HJUEVER LITTLE, VAS ENORMOUS COMPARED WITH THE EXPENDITUNE SAVED BY HOT USING DISPLAY LIGHTING AND MUST ELRIOUSLY AFFECT PROFITS, HE SAID.

2. CREUNG NOTED THAT RETAIL SHOPS CONTRIBUTE TO HONG KONG!S INVISIBLE EARNINGS, AD TO AUCLENT OUR EARNINICS FRUL FOREIGN SUURCES THE SHOPS MUST BE ABLE TO ATTRACT TOU.:15TS.

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