PR 33
K
香港政府
GIS 新聞處
DAILY INFORMATION BULLETIN
SUPPLEMENT
Thursday, January 17, 1980
ACTING GOVERNOR ADDRESSES DGS SPEECH DAY
The following is the address by the Acting Governor, Sir Jack
Cater, at the Diocesan Girls' School Speech Day today (Thursday) :
Bishop Baker, Mrs Symons, Ladies and Gentlemen, Girls of DGS, Friends:
My wife and I are grateful for the invitation to be here today.
Speech Days are important occasions which we are delighted to attend
and particularly when the school is DGS,
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First a few words about your school: as you know, DGS is one
of Hong Kong's best known and well-respected, as well as venerable,
institutions.
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It is over one hundred years old and this is very special
because we are a comparatively young community and one hundred years covers
the best part of our history. It has been a century of great change and
growth.
This school is an integral part of Hong Kong; it has grown with
Hong Kong and proved that it can adapt to advances and to change. That
says a great deal for an organisation which started with only about 50
girls (and a government grant of $15 per month and that fact should
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make the Financial Secretary look back with nostalgia to the mid-nineteenth
century:). Today the school has an enrolment of 900 with a grant of
nearly $3 million per year.
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Issued by Government Information Services, Beaconsfield House, Hong Kong. Tel: 5-233191
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