ROYAL VISIT PRESS RELEASE
Sir Yuet-keung Kan,
Monday, May 5, 1975
Queen's Visit City Hall Lunch
Monday, May 5
Her Majesty the Queen's Speech
I am most grateful to you for your kind and wise speech and for this coin you have given me on behalf of the Government of Hong Kong. It is a delightful memento of this visit, to which I have long looked forward and which we are both greatly enjoying. We are also grateful to you for this lunch which we are to share with so many of the people who guide the affairs of this city We have come to see the remarkable phenomenon which is modern Hong Kong. This morning I toured the streets, I saw the children in their swimming pools, and visited people in their homes. I felt the warmth and
vigour of Hong Kong's life. I also saw some of the oldest and newest of
public housing, and heard of the work in hand and further plans being drawn up for major housing development. I am aware of the conditions which history
has forced on Hong Kong and my predominant feeling is pride that so much has been achieved and that there is so much determination to solve the many problems that remain.
I recognise that the rate of your advance depends on economic conditions in the rest of the world beyond your control. But I urge you to hold to your vision and to your will to put things right. I believe these qualities to be
/essential
No comments yet.
Private notes are available after approval.