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SATURDAY, MARCH 12, 1988

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JAPAN A LARGE MARKET TO PENETRATE GOVERNOR

MARKET FOR HONG

MARKET,

JAPAN IS, AND STILL WILL BE A VERY IMPORTANT

TO PENETRATE THIS KONG AND PERSISTENT EFFORTS MUST BE MADE THE GOVERNOR, SIR DAVID WILSON SAID TODAY (SATURDAY).

JAPAN, THE HONG

SPEAKING AT THE AIRPORT TO REPORTERS ON HIS RETURN FROM

TO JAPAN

MEMBERS WITH

OF SIR DAVID DESCRIBED HIS VISIT KONG-JAPAN BUSINESS COOPERATION COMMITTEE A VERY USEFUL ONE.

LOT OF HIGH LEVEL

WHERE

AN WE HAVE

WHICH ARE

A "VISITS LIKE THIS WHERE HONG KONG GETS

OF

ATTENTION AND MEDIA ATTENTION, A GOOD DEAL OPPORTUNITY TO DISCUSS WITH THE JAPANESE SIDE ANY PROBLEMS ARISING...ARE VERY USEFUL, HF SAID.

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KONG

KONG WHICH WE "SO TOO IS THE SORT OF STALL PROMOTION OF HONG ALL ATTENDED THIS MORNING IN OSAKA AND THE PRESENTATION OF HONG

HE ADDED. FASHION IN OSAKA WHICH WE ALL ATTENDED LAST NIGHT,

T

REASON ΤΟ SIR DAVID SAID HE BELIEVED THAT HONG KONG HAD EVERY

MEMBERS AND THE OTHER

OF THE HONG BE GRATEFUL TO SIR S.Y. CHUNG

THEIR HARD COMMITTEE FOR

WORK IN KONG-JAPAN BUSINESS COOPERATION TRYING TO PROMOTE THE ECONOMIC RELATIONS BETWEEN HONG KONG AND JAPAN.

THE SECOND SHOULD HAVE THE NEXT

ASKED TO COMMENT ON HIS REMARK MADE IN OSAKA ABOUT

KONG AIRPORT, SIR DAVID SAID IT WAS ESSENTIAL THAT HONG THE TYPE OF AIRPORT THAT WOULD MEET ITS NEEDS RIGHT UP INTO CENTURY.

GOVERNMENT ASKED WHETHER THE AIRPORT, HE SAID THERE WAS A SERIES MOMENT.

TO WAS GOING

BUILD A OF STUDIES BEING DONE

AT

SECOND THE

AND

"FIRST OF ALL, ON THE CAPACITY OF KAI TAK, AND THEN A PORT

WHOLE QUESTION OF THE AIRPORT DEVELOPMENT STUDY LOOKING INTO THE

A NEW AIRPORT, AND EXPANSION OF THE HARBOUR AND THE POSSIBILITY OF HOW THOSE TWO THINGS MIGHT BE PUT TOGETHER.

MAKE "IT REQUIRES VERY EXTENSIVE STUDY BEFORE YOU

ENORMOUS COST AS OF SUCH ENORMOUS SIGNIFICANCE AND SUCH SALD.

A DECISION THAT, HE

DISTRICT ASKED TO COMMENT ON THE TURNOUT RATE OF VOTERS AT THE

WAS PLEASED THAT THE ELECTIONS BOARD ELECTIONS, SIR DAVID SAID HE

THERE WAS GREAT ENTHUSIASM AND TOOK PLACE IN AN ATMOSPHERE WHERE THEY WERE ALSO CARRIED OUT IN AN ORDERLY FASHION.

"

WHERE

IN 1991 ΤΟ

'THE TURNOUT WAS A REASONABLE ONE FOR DISTRICT BOARD ELECTIONS.

A SUSTAINED TURNOUT AT OVER TIME, I WOULD HOPE THAT THERE WOULD BE THE ELECTIONS OF THIS SORT, I BELIEVE THAT WHEN WE COME DIRECT ELECTIONS TO LEGCO, WE HAVE EVERY REASON TO EXPECT HIGHER TURNOUT THAN WE HAD AT THE DISTRICT BOARD ELECTIONS,

A

SLIGHTLY HE SAID.

/IN REPLY