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DAILY INFORMATION BULLETIN
SUPPLEMENT
Wednesday, January 9, 1980
ACTING GOVERNOR ATTENDS CHARTERED SHIPBROKERS LUNCHEON
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The following is the full text of speech by the Acting Governor,
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Sir Jack Cater, at the Diamond Anniversary Luncheon of the Hong Kong Branch of the
Institute of Chartered Shipbrokers on Wednesday January 9, 1980.
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I am most grateul to you, Mr Chairman, and to the Fellows, Members and
Students of the Hong Kong Branch of the Institute of Chartered Shipbrokers for
inviting me to this, your Diamond Anniversary luncheon. I congratulate the Institute
on the achievements of the last 60 years; your Chairman has with his customary, but
quite unwarranted, modesty touched only briefly on these quite remarkable achievements.
Your Institute The Institute - is a leader in the provision of qualified
professional shipbrokers for world chartering markets and agency expertise; and
although today you are becoming involved in seemingly far vider and weightier
matters, I trust you will never forget that your raison d'être is the provision of
education and training and the fostering of professional expertise (and as a former
Commissioner of the ICAC you would expect me to say this) importantly integrity,
And what a great, inspiring but simple Motto you have "Our Word Our Bond".
It is through the Institute's substantial overseas membership that its
standards have come to be accepted as the international yardstick for professional
shipbrokers; it is extremely gratifying - but not surprising to find, not only
that Hong Kong as the largest overseas branch of the Institute, but also that
the record of Hong Kong students in the Institute's examinations is so outstanding.
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