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MONDAY, MARCH 13, 1973

CHIEF SECRETARY OPENS INTERNATIONAL SPEEDPOST CONFERENCE

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THE CHIEF SECRETARY, SUR DENYS ROBERTS, SAID TODAY THE SPEED- POST SERVICE HAD BROUGHT VALUABLE BENEFITS TO BUSINESSMEN AND CHOULD BE EXPANDED.

+THE ENTERPRISE OF THOSE POSTAL ADMINISTRATIONS WHICH HAVE ESTABLISHED SPEEDPOST LINKS HAS PROVED THE NEED FOR SUCH A SERVICE AND THAT IT FRIGO SUBSTANTIAL BENEFITS TO ZUSINESSMEN IN THOSE. COUNTRIES WHERE IT IS AVAILABLE,+ HE SAID. -

+THE LARGER THE NUMBER OF POSTAL ADMINISTRATIONS PARTICIPATING IN THIS SERVICE, THE MORE VALUABLE DOES IT BECOME TO THE TRADERS, + HE ADDED.

SIR DENYS „AS ADDRESSING DELEGATES AT THE OPENING OF THE FOURTH INTERNATIONAL SPEEDPOST CONFERENCE BEING HOSTED BY THE POST OFFICE AT THE SHERATON HOTEL.

THE FIVE-DAY CONFERENCE, CHAIRED BY THE DEPUTY POSTMASTER GENERAL, MR. A.C. HEATHCOTE TO THE FIRST OF ITS KIND TO BE HELD T HONG KONG AND IS BEING ATTENDED BY 30 DELEGATES FROM 18 COUNTRIES, INCLUDING AUSTRALIA, CANADA, FRAN JAPAN, KOREA, MALAYSIA, THE NETHERLANDS, THE UNITED KILDCH AND THE U.3.A.

OPENING THE CONFERENCE, CIR DENYS SAID THE SPEEDPOST SERVICE WAS ONE OF THE MOST VALUABLE DEVELOPMENTS IN THE FIELD OF INTER- NATIONAL COMMUNICATIONS.

+ IT IS A FINE ACHIEVEMENT THAT POSTAL PACKAGES CAN DE COLLECTED IN ONE COUNTRY AND DELIVERED IN ANOTHER THOUSANDS OF MILES AWAY. IN A MATTER OF ONE OR TO DAYO,+ HE SAID.

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HE WOTED THAT HONG KONG'S ABILITY TO SELL ITS MANUFACTURED GOODS IN HIGHLY COMPETITIVE OVERSEAS MARKETO DEPENDED TO A SIGNIFICANT EXTENT UPON THE OPEE MS RELIABILITY OF ALL FORMS OF INTERNATIONAL COMMUNICATION OF MAIGN THE POSTAL SERVICES MERE PERHAPS THE MOST NIPORTART.

SIR DENYS SAID SPEEDPO. BEGINNINGS IN 1971, WHEN

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