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THURSDAY, JANUARY 21, 1982

+WE HAVE THE RISK OF DEPENDENCE ON EXTERNAL MARKETS AND THIS IS A RISK WE HAVE SUCCESSFULLY LIVED WITH WE ALSO HAVE THE REQUIREMENT TO RECONCILE THE UNDERSTANDABLE POSITION OF THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT ON HONG KONG WITH PRESERVATION OF WHAT MAKES ITS CONTRIBUTION POSSIBLE AS A FREE PORT AND AN INDUSTRIAL, COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL CENTRE. IT HAS ALWAYS BEEN APPARENT THAT THIS QUESTION WOULD BECOME ACTIVE IN THE EARLY OR MID 1980S - ONE CANNOT BE PRECISE.

+ IT IS THEREFORE EXTREMELY SATISFACTORY THAT SINO/BRITISH RELATIONS, AND SINO/BRITISH RELATIONS OVER HONG KONG, HAVE EVOLVED SO WELL, AND THAT THE PERSONAL AND OFFICIAL RELATIONSHIP OF OFFICIALS AND BUSINESSMEN IN HONG KONG WITH CHINESE OFFICIALS WHETHER HERE OR IN GUANGDONG OR BEIJING ARE SO GOOD.

+ IT MAKES POSSIBLE DISPASSIONATE AND CONSTRUCTIVE

DISCUSSION, AT THE RIGHT TIME, OF THIS PROBLEM.

+ IT IS COMMON GROUND THAT A SOLUTION MUST BE FOUND,

+MOREOVER THE MUTUAL ADVANTAGE OF AN ARRANGEMENT SATISFACTORY TO ALL CONCERNED SEEMS VAST. MEANWHILE THERE IS TIME, AND WE MUST KEEP OUR NERVE, HE SAID.

SIR PHILIP LOOKS INTO

TECHNICAL AND TEACHER EDUCATION

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THE CHIEF SECRETARY, SIR PHILIP HADDON-CAVE, THIS (THURSDAY) AFTERNOON VISITED THE LEE WAI LEE TECHNICAL INSTITUTE AND SIR ROBERT BLACK COLLEGE OF EDUCATION TO LOOK INTO TECHNICAL AND TEACHER EDUCATION.

ACCOMPANIED BY THE DIRECTOR OF EDUCATION, MR COLVYN HAYE, SIR PHILIP FIRST WENT TO LEE WAJ LEE TECHNICAL INSTITUTE, WHERE HE WAS SHOWN AROUND CLASSROOMS AND WORKSHOPS EQUIPPED FOR A WIDE RANGE OF CRAFT, TECHNICIAN AND COMMERCIAL COURSES. HE LATER MET AND HELD TALKS WITH STAFF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE INSTITUTE.

DURING HIS VISIT, SIR PHILIP WAS TOLD THAT A STAGE TWO DEVELOPMENT PROJECT IS DUE TO BEGIN NEXT MONTH AND WILL INCLUDE AN ADDITIONAL STOREY TO THE EXISTING BUILDING OF THE INSTITUTE, AND A FIVE-STOREY ANVEX. THE DEVELOPMENT WILL SUBSTANTIALLY INCREASE THE STUDENT CAPACITY UPON COMPLETION BY 1983.

LATER IN THE AFTERNOON, SIR PHILIP WAS WARMLY WELCOMED BY A CHORUS OF MUSIC STUDENTS ON HIS ARRIVAL AT SIR ROBERT BLACK COLLEGE OF EDUCATION.

HE THEN TOURED THE COLLEGE CAMPUS TO SEE DISPLAYS OF STUDENTS' WORKS IN THE ENGLion, AND RESOURCES AND RESEARCH ROOMS, AND AN INSTRUMENTAL CLASS IN THE MUSIC ROCK.

HE THEN CHATTED ITH STAFF AND STUDENT UNION REPRESENTATIVES OF THE COLLEGE, BEFORE DEPARTING FOR THE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT HEADQUARTERS FOR MOUSSITH THE DIRECTORATE.

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