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香港政府

GIS

新聞處

DAILY INFORMATION BULLETIN

Sunday, Februry 29, 1976

DISTINGUISHED AUTHOR'S PERSONAL VIEW

IN NEW GOVERNMENT, YEARBOOK

The 30th edition of the Government's yearbook, "Hong Kong 1976"

with more than 70 full-page colour pictures

goes on sale tomorrow

(Monday, March 1) with an introductory chapter by the distinguished

author and journalist Richard Hughes. The book is published in English

and Chinese.

It is the first time that a writer from outside the Civil Service

has been invited to contribute the opening chapter, which traditionally

reviews events and developments in Hong Kong.

Mr. Hughes gives his personal view of the past year with the

familiarity of an author on home ground and with the perception of en

international journalist he is Hong Kong correspondent for the Times,

The Sunday Times and The Economist.

He puts recession, expansion and investment into neat perspective;

recalls the Royal visit, the arrival of the Vietnamese rofugses, and a

moment in the history of local cricket; and takes stock of the Mess

Transit Railway, the labour situation, New Towns, and corruption.

The Royal visit is featured in the first of ten picture sections

in the yearbook. Other camera subjects include youth movements, the Oi

Man housing estate, television, fashion, and the Yue Lan Festival.

As the Government's annual report covering the whole of 1975,

the book is a work of reference on virtually every aspect of life in

Hong Kong its 22 chapters ranging from industry, housing and eduction

to recreation, natural history, religion and custom.

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Issued by Government Information Services, Beaconsfield House, Hong Kong. Tel: 5-233191

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