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Royal Visit

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1986

THE DUKE OPENS CASTLE PEAK +B+ POWER STATION

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THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH TODAY DESCRIBED THE CASTLE PEAK POWER STATION COMPLEX AS THE SORT OF INTERNATIONAL SUCCESS STORY THAT WE HAVE COME TO EXPECT FROM HONG KONG+.

OFFICIALLY OPENING THE CASTLE PEAK +B+ STATION THIS MORNING, THE DUKE SAID THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE LARGEST POWER STATION COMPLEX IN SOUTHEAST ASIA HAD BEEN A MASSIVE UNDERTAKING.

PRINCE PHILIP SAID: THE COMBINED EFFORTS OF THE GIANT AMERICAN ESSO COMPANY AND THE BRITISH ENGINEERING FIRMS OF BABCOCK AND GEC, TOGETHER WITH THE CHINA LIGHT AND POWER COMPANY HAVE RESULTED IN THIS IMMENSE PROJECT BEING FINALISED WELL AHEAD OF SCHEDULE.

+1F SUCH A PROJECT, AND HONG KONG ITSELF FOR THAT MATTER, IS A MEASURE OF WHAT CAN BE ACHIEVED BY ANGLO-CHINESE AND INTERNATIONAL CO-OPERATION, I BELIEVE IT BODES VERY WELL FOR THE FUTURE OF HONG KONG AND THE WHOLE OF SOUTH CHINA.+

PRINCE PHILIP TRAVELLED TO CASTLE PEAK FROM HMS TAMAR ON BOARD A WESSEX HELICOPTER OF 28 SQUADRON, ROYAL AIR FORCE. ON HIS ARRIVAL HE WAS RECEIVED BY THE FINANCIAL SECRETARY, MR PIERS JACOBS, WHO PRESENTED THE CHAIRMAN OF CHINA LIGHT AND POWER, LORD KADOOR IE, WHO IN TURN PRESENTED MR M.J. CLANCY, CHAIRMAN, ESSO HONG KONG SIR SIDNEY GORDON, DEPUTY CHAIRMAN, CHINA LIGHT AND POWER

MR M.E.J. O'LOUGHLIN, DIRECTOR, EXXON CORPORATION: MR T.A. KIRKLEY, PRESIDENT, EXXON COAL AND MINERALS AND MR W.F. STONES, MANAGING DIRECTOR, CHINA LIGHT AND POWER.

ACCOMPANIED BY LORD KADOORIE AND MR STONES, PRINCE PHILIP TRAVELLED BY EXECUTIVE BUS TO CASTLE PEAK +B+ STATION WHERE HE TOOK THE LIFT TO THE FIFTH FLOOR CENTRAL CONTROL ROOM, WHICH WAS EXPLAINED BY MR STONES WHO PRESENTED TO PRINCE PHILIP: DIVISIONAL MANAGER ENGINEERING, MR R.W. BROOKS DIVISIONAL MANAGER OPERATIONS, MR W.L. MAYERS; STATION MANAGER CASTLE PEAK +B+, MR K. STOTT, STATION MANAGER CASTLE PEAK +A+, MR J.H. WOODS AND PROJECT MANAGER, MR J.M. PEARSON.

/THE DUKE