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SATURDAY, JANUARY 22, 1983

GOVERNOR'S APPOINTMENT WITH PRIME MINISTER

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IN ANSWER TO PRESS QUERIES ABOUT THE PROGRAMME OF THE GOVERNOR, SIR EDWARD YOUDE, DURING HIS VISIT TO LONDON FROM JANUARY 22 TO 28, A GOVERNMENT SPOKESMAN SAID TODAY THAT THE GOVERNOR WOULD BE DISCUSSING HONG KONG MATTERS WITH OFFICIALS AND MINISTERS IN THE FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE AND WOULD TAKE THE OPPORTUNITY TO CALL ON THE PRIME MINISTER, MRS MARGARET THATCHER, ON JANUARY 28.

METRIC CAMPAIGN IS BIG SUCCESS

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THE METRICATION COMMITTEE'S +METRIC 10 DAYS+ PUBLICITY CAMPAIGN WILL CLOSE TOMORROW (SUNDAY).

IN THE PAST NINE DAYS, MORE THAN 200 000 PEOPLE PARTICIPATED IN THE VARIOUS METRIC-ORIENTED EVENTS PRESENTED BY THE CAMPAIGN, WHILE MANY THOUSANDS OF OTHERS SHARED THE FUN THROUGH THE MASS MEDIA.

TOMORROW'S FINISH TO THE CAMPAIGN WILL BE MARKED BY TWO MORE EXCITING EVENTS, THE LYRICS COMPETITION FINALS AND THE SCREENING OF THE GRAND FINALE TV VARIETY SHOW.

OUT OF MORE THAN 2 400 ENTRIES TO THE LYRICS COMPETITION, THREE OUTSTANDING PIECES WILL BE SELECTED AS WINNERS. THESE WINNING SONGS WILL THEN BE SUNG BY POPULAR SINGERS, YEUNG SIU-CHING AND JOHNNY YIP ON RADIO ONE, RTHK AT 7 PM TOMORROW (SUNDAY).

THE SONGS WILL ALSO BE USED AS RADIO TRAILERS FOR PROMOTING THE METRIC SYSTEM IN FUTURE.

THE $200 000 +THINK METRIC, GO METRIC TV VARIETY SHOW, OPENED BY THE SECRETARY FOR ECONOMIC SERVICES, MR P. JACOBS, AND PRODUCED BY RTHK BEFORE A PACKED ACADEMIC COMMUNITY HALL LAST NIGHT (FRIDAY), WILL BE SCREENED ON TVB-JADE AT 8.30 PM TOMORROW (SUNDAY).

THE HOUR-LONG SHOW STARS SUCH POPULAR ARTISTES AS AGNES CHAN, LESSIE CHEUNG, ROWENA CORTES, ELIZA CHAN, HUNG KAM-PO AND LAM KAR-WAH.

COMMENT ING ON THE BIG RESPONSE PARTICULARLY BY THE YOUNGER GENERATION TO THE VARIOUS METRIC EVENTS, A METRICATION COMMITTEE SPOKESMAN SAID, WE ARE VERY PLEASED THAT WE HAVE APPARENTLY PUT ACROSS OUR DESIRED MESSAGE TO THE PEOPLE OF HONG KONG.

+THOUGH THIS PARTICULAR CAMPAIGN CONCLUDES TOMORROW, IT IS DEFINITELY NOT THE END OF THE METRICATION ROAD. IT JUST BRINGS US ONE STEP NEARER TO A MORE ADVANCED ERA.+

/THE $500 000