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THURSDAY, JUNE 4, 1987

COMMENTING ON HIS DISTRICT VISITS, SIR DAVID SAID IT WAS VERY USEFUL TO GET OUT AND SEE THINGS FOR HIMSELF. "A LOT OF MY WORK HAVE TO BE DONE SITTING IN MY OFFICE, OR SITTING IN EXCO, SITTING IN LEGCO, I THINK IT'S VERY IMPORTANT THAT I SHOULD SEE HAPPENING IN HONGKONG, AND TO THE EXTENT THAT IT PEOPLE MYSELF, LISTEN TO SOME OF THE THINGS WHICH

"SO FOR ME, IT MAKES ALIVE THE SORT OTHERWISE, I'D ONLY READ ABOUT ON PAPER," HE SAID.

FOR MYSELF WHAT'S IS POSSIBLE, MEET CONCERN THEM.

OF PROBLEMS WHICH

GOVERNOR TOURS CENTRAL AND WESTERN

THE GOVERNOR, SIR DAVID WILSON, DISTRICT THIS (THURSDAY) AFTERNOON.

VISITED CENTRAL AND WESTERN

ACCOMPANIED BY THE REGIONAL SECRETARY FOR HONG KONG AND KOWLOON, MR T.H. CHAU, THE GOVERNOR AND LADY WILSON FIRST WENT TO NAM PAK HONG, A CENTRE FOR TRADITIONAL WHOLESALE BUSINESS LOCATED IN BONHAM STRANDS BAST AND WEST AND WING LOK STREET.

THERE, THEY WERE MET BY THE CENTRAL AND WESTERN DISTRICT OFFICER, MR LAM KAM-KWONG, AND DISTRICT BOARD CHAIRMAN, MR VINCENT KO.

SIR DAVID WAS TOLD THAT THE HISTORY OF NAM PAK HONG (LITERALLY MEANING "SOUTH-NORTH TRADING CENTRE"} DATED BACK AS EARLY AS THE LATTER HALF OF 19TH CENTURY WHEN HONG KONG WAS ALREADY A THRIVING ENTREPOT.

SIR DAVID AND LADY WILSON THEN WENT TO NEARBY KO SHING STREET, ONE OF THE EARLIEST DEVELOPED AREAS IN HONG KONG, WHERE THEY WERE BRIEFED ON URBAN RENEWAL PLANS FOR THE AREA.

THE PARTY THEN TURNED INTO DES VOEUX ROAD WEST TO VISIT AN AREA KNOWN LOCALLY AS "HAM YU LAAN" OR "SALTED FISH MARKET", WHICH COMPRISES A CLUSTER OF SHOPS SPECIALISING IN THE WHOLESALE AND OF PRESERVED SEAFOOD.

THEY THEN WALKED ΤΟ THE NEARBY PLAYGROUND WHICH WAS BUILT IN A DENSELY POPULATED DOMESTIC BUILDINGS.

THEIR NEXT STOP WAS KWUN LUNG

SMALL

RETAIL

SUNG HING LANE CHILDREN'S OPEN SPACE SURROUNDED BY

LAU, A RENTAL HOUSING ESTATE

BUILT AND MANAGED BY THE HOUSING SOCIETY, AND HAD A BIRD'S EYE VIEW OF KENNEDY TOWN FROM ITS ROOFTOP.

THE GOVERNOR

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