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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1987

YOUNG PEOPLE'S CONTRIBUTIONS TO COMMUNITY PRAISED

HONG KONG IS NOT ONLY COSMOPOLITAN, IT IS VIGOROUS, EVER-CHANGING AND VIBRANT, BUT DESPITE THE PRESSURES UPON IT, HONG KONG REMAINS A VERY STABLE COMMUNITY, THE DEPUTY TO THE GOVERNOR, MR DAVID FORD, SAID THIS (TUESDAY) EVENING.

SPEAKING AT THE TEN OUTSTANDING YOUNG PERSONS AWARDS PRESENTATION CEREMONY, MR FORD SAID: "I AM SURE THAT WE CAN BE THANKFUL THAT WE LIVE IN A PLACE WHERE THE YOUNG PEOPLE WHO ARE HONOURED THIS EVENING HAVE THE FREEDOM AND ENCOURAGEMENT TO FLOURISH AND SO MAKE SUCH VALUABLE CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE COMMUNITY,"

HE SAID THE RECIPIENTS OF THIS YEAR'S AWARDS HAD BY THEIR EFFORTS, HOW WILLING AND ABLE THEY WERE TO DO TO MEET THE NEEDS OF THE COMMUNITY.

DEMONSTRATED,

THEIR UTMOST

"I AM STRUCK BY THEIR DIVERSITY OF INTERESTS AND THE WIDE RANGE OF PROFESSIONS THEY REPRESENT.

"IT IS A REFLECTION OF HOW INTERNATIONAL AND SOPHISTICATED HONG KONG HAS BECOME IN RECENT YEARS THAT THERE ARE SO MANY WAYS IN +4 HE WHICH PEOPLE CAN CONTRIBUTE TO THIS COSMOPOLITAN SOCIETY OF OURS, SAID.

MR FORD SAID ALL THE YOUNG PEOPLE RECEIVING AWARDS HAD PROVED THEIR ABILITY AND THEIR COMMITMENT AND HE HAD NO DOUBT THAT EACH ONE OF THEM WOULD, IN THEIR OWN WAY, CONTINUE ΤΟ MAKE A MOST VALUABLE CONTRIBUTION.

HE SAID HE WAS MOST IMPRESSED WITH THE CONCEPT AND THE SPIRIT OF THE AWARD SCHEME WHICH WAS IN ITS 18TH YEAR.

"IT GIVES WELL DESERVED RECOGNITION TO OUR TALENTED YOUNG PEOPLE WHO, BY THEIR ACHIEVEMENTS IN THEIR OWN FIELDS, HAVE SET AN EXAMPLE OF EXCELLENCE FOR ALL OTHERS TO FOLLOW," HE ADDED.

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