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香港政府

GIS 新聞處

DAILY INFORMATION BULLETIN

SUPPLEMENT

GOVERNOR OPENS TUEN MUN HIGHWAY

Friday, May 5, 1978

The following is the full text of speech by the Governor, Sir

Murray MacLehose, at the opening of Tuen Mun Highway today :

I am very glad to open this new highway. If any of you had doubts

about the need for it, I trust they were dispelled as you joined the queue to get here along the old coast road. Clearly the Test and North-West have

need of greatly improved communications.

Communications

access to new land lie at the heart of the

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development of Hong Kong. I well remember the decision to build this highway, and so open the West and North-West to development. It was taken at a dark time when the quintupling of oil prices had suddenly opened at our feet what then appeared a financial abyss. Prudence required retrenchment and retrench- ment there was. But recovery required progress and development, and so,

inspite of economies in other fields, the go-ahead for this highway was

given. It has acted as a shot in the arm for both Tuen Mun and Yuen Long.

I have no doubt that the double Lion Rock Tunnels, the double track

railway, and the new coastal road will do the same for Tai Po and the North- East and the Aberdeen Tunnel will similarly affect Aberdeen and Ap Lei Chau.

This Tuen Mun

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