XN000022-1975-04-21 — Page 4

ROYAL VISIT

PRESS RELEASE

Monday, April 21, 1975

HONG KONG'S CAPABILITY AS CONSUMER GOODS' PRODUCER

Queen To See Imposing Array At 'Progress Hong Kong' Exhibition

An imposing array of sophisticated Hong Kong-made consumer

goods will be assembled for the Queen's inspection at the "Progress

Hong Kong" exhibition in the Hung Hom railway terminal which she and

the Duke of Edinburgh will visit on the afternoon of May 5.

This exhibition is now almost ready after months of careful

planning. It is being mounted in honour of the Queen and the Duke,

who will spend some time touring it.

The design is intended graciously to convey to the Royal

-

-

visitors and to the people of Hong Kong and the world the message

that this corner of the Queen's realm has achieved, by its own enter-

prise, determination and craftsmanship, a position of respect in the

highly-competitive areas of quality manufacture and export.

The Queen and the Duke will be told, for example, that in the

international watch market, in value terms, Hong Kong is third in the

list of exporters, coming only behind Switzerland and Japan. In terms

of numbers of watches exported, Hong Kong in 1973 reached 11 million

timepieces, second only to Switzerland.

/Transistor radios.....