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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1985

+ BE A LITTLE PATIENT AND WAIT AND SEE WHAT WE PRODUCE.+

ASKED WHETHER THERE HAD BEEN A SETBACK IN ARRANGEMENTS SINCE REPORTERS WERE EARLIER TOLD THAT DETAILS OF THE NEW IDENTITY CARDS WOULD PROBABLY BE ANNOUNCED IN A FEW WEEKS, HE SAID, I THINK THAT MUST HAVE BEEN A MISUNDERSTANDING.+

+ I THINK THAT PROBABLY REFERRED TO THE PASSPORTS, AND WE DID ISSUE SOME INFORMATION LAST WEEK ABOUT THE PASSPORTS.

+ ID CARDS ARE REALLY QUITE COMPLICATED THINGS TO PRODUCE, AS THE NEW ONES HAVE SHOWN.

+AND WHAT WE WANT TO DO, AS I SAID A LITTLE WHILE AGO, IS TO MAKE SURE THE ARRANGEMENTS GIVE THE MAXIMUM CONVENIENCE TO THE PEOPLE WHO HAVE TO USE THEM.

AS FOR HIS COMMENTS ON REPORTS THAT MINORITY GROUPS WOULD NOT HAVE ABSOLUTE RIGHT OF ABODE IN HONG KONG, THE GOVERNOR POINTED OUT THAT THE RIGHT OF ABODE WAS FIRMLY SET OUT IN THE AGREEMENT.

+1 SHOULDN'T DO ANY ADVERTISING, BUT IF YOU DID READ A CERTAIN NEWSPAPER THIS MORNING, YOU WILL FIND THAT THE DETAILS OF WHO HAVE THE RIGHT OF ABODE IS SET OUT VERY CLEARLY.

+AND THE ANSWER TO THAT QUESTION IS THERE.

+ IT IS QUITE A TECHNICAL ANSWER, SO I DON'T WANT TO MISLEAD YOU. BUT NEVERTHELESS THE ANSWER IS CLEARLY SET OUT IN THE AGREEMENT.+

ASKED WHAT THE MAIN THEME OF HIS POLICY SPEECH WOULD BE,

SIR EDWARD SAID IT WAS RATHER DIFFICULT TO SUM UP.

+I THINK THE MAIN THEME WILL BE, REALLY, CONTINUING DEVELOPMENT WITH A PURPOSE' +

ASKED WHETHER HE HAD FINISHED WRITING IT, HE SAID, +! HAVE WRITTEN A LOT OF IT. I HAVE TO GIVE IT NEXT WEEK.+

GOVERNOR HEARS LATEST ON MASSIVE PROJECT

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LATEST DETAILS OF ONE OF THE LARGEST AND MOST AMBITIOUS HOUSING ESTATE REDEVELOPMENT PROJECTS IN THE WORLD WERE DESCRIBED TO THE GOVERNOR, SIR EDWARD YOUDE, DURING HIS TOUR OF THE WONG TAI SIN DISTRICT THIS AFTERNOON,

IN THE MASSIVE PROJECT, $2 000 MILLION WILL BE SPENT ON REDEVELOPING THE KOWLOON CENTRAL ESTATES -- EMBRACING LOWER WONG TAI SIN, TUNG TAU, WANG TAU HOM AND LOK FU-- INTO A MODERN URBAN COMMUNITY.

/THE PROJECT