second three lanes will be completed in 1980. I understand a hover-
ferry service is being considered which would take passengers to
central Hong Kong in half an hour.
"A community cannot be built on housing and work clone.
The planners have therefore so arranged the development of Tuen Itun
that community facilities of all sorts will be built, stage by stage,
as the estates and factories develop.
"I realise that a project of these dimensions imposed on
what was once a quiet fishing village, has involved disruption of
the lives of the original residents, although they and their children
will gain enormously from the facilities of the New Town. The fact that it has been possible to launch this project successfully is a great testimonial to the spirit of co-operation which prevails in
this community and the wise leadership shown by the Rural Committee
and its chairman and by the Heung Yee Kuk. It must be our endeavour
to ensure that this harmony is maintained in the New Town to come
and that the Government spares no effort to fulfil the promise of
a better life which is its object.
"What this means is shown in this exhibition which I commend
to the people of Tuen Mun and to the rest of Hong Kong, and also to
the industrialists and developers without whose support the growth
of this and other New Towns would not be possible.
"I now ask the Chairman of the Heung Yee Kuk, Mr. Chan Yat-san,
the Chairman of the Tuen Mun Rural Committee, Mr. Lau Wong-fat, and
the other leading citizens and representatives of the people of Tuen Mun
to join me in cutting the ribbon to officially open the Tuen Mun New
Town Exhibition."
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