PR 31
H 香港政府
GIS
新聞處
DAILY INFORMATION BULLETIN
SUPPLEMENT
Friday, March 23, 1979
EMBARGOED:
The following item is embargoed
until 10.30 pm today (Friday).
SPEECH BY THE GOVERNOR, SIR LURRAY MACLEHOSE, G.B.E., K.C.M.G., K.C.V.O,
AT THE FOURTH ANNUAL DINNER OF THE HONG KONG INSTITUTION OF ENGINEERS
"I an most grateful to you for your hospitality. When I arrived,
and it seems a long time ago, I gladly accepted your invitation to become
Patron of the Engineering Society which has since been transformed into
the present statutory Institution.
"I have seen what your profession is doing to change the
physical face of Hong Kong. Indeed as a professional group, to our mutual
benefit, you do raise more dust to the acre than any other. But it is
remarkable how quickly the dust settles.
"One of my early tasks was to open the cross-harbour tunnel.
Now, it is hard to remember what Hong Kong was like without it.
"Perhaps in 18 months it will be hard to remember what Hong
Kong was like without a Mass Transit Railway, and we will have taken for
granted the massive deployment and coordination of the many disciplines
of engineering, let alone the financial arrangements, that made it
possible. I hope we will forget equally rapidly the inconvenience that
its construction created,
/"I must
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