XN000022-1988-10-12 — Page 64

52

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1988

SHOULD

ΤΟ

"THEY HAVE ALSO AGREED THAT A NEW UNIT OF THE FOLICE FORCE,

IN FUTURE TAKE OVER EARLIER, I HAVE REFERRED RESPONSIBILITY FOR PREVENTING ILLEGAL ENTRY INTO HONG KONG,

WHICH

++

THE JLG HAD BEEN NOW APPLIED

SIR DAVID SAID ONE IMPORTANT NEW AREA THAT CONSIDERING WAS THE LOCALISATION OF UK LEGISLATION WHICH TO HONG KONG.

HAVE ITS "CHANGES WILL HAVE TO BE MADE SO THAT HONG KONG WILL

THE EXISTING UK LEGISLATION," HE OWN LAWS COVERING THE SAME GROUND AS SAID.

-

'AGREEMENT HAS BEEN REACHED GOVERN THE LOCALISATION PROCESS.

ON THE PRINCIPLES WHICH

SHOULD

"MEMBERS WILL BE ASKED SOON TO CONSIDER THE FIRST ITEM OF LOCALISED LEGISLATION, WHICH DEALS WITH ADMIRALTY JURISDICTION."

THIS

BLUEPRINT FOR A PROSPEROUS FUTURE

* *

AS A SOCIETY, AND AS A GOVERNMENT, NOT LIMITED BY 1997: THEY EXTEND GOVERNOR, SIR DAVID WILSON, SAID TODAY (WEDNESDAY).

LIONG

WELL INTO

KONG'S THE NEXT

HORIZONS CENTURY,

ARE THE

COUNCIL, SIR WAS: A GROWTH

CONCLUDING HIS ANNUAL ADDRESS TO THE LEGISLATIVE DAVID SAID HE HAD TRIED TO PAINT A PICTURE OF HONG KONG AS IT DYNAMIC, BUSTLING SOCIETY WITH A REMARKABLE RECORD OF ECONOMIC AND AN ABILITY TO CONFRONT THE PROBLEMS WHICH FACED IT.

A RANGE OF POLICY THE SHORT TERM

YOU BEFORE "IN LOOKING AHEAD I HAVE PUT INITIATIVES WHICH ARE DESIGNED TO DEAL NOT JUST WITH

++ HE TOLD COUNCILLORS, OR THE MEDIUM TERM, BUT THE LONG TERM AS WELL,

"I HAVE TRIED TO PAINT THE PICTURE AS IT IS, WARTS AND ALL,

SIR DAVID THEN LISTED THE PROBLEMS THAT HONG KONG MUST RANGING FROM TRAFFIC CONGESTION TO THE SO-CALLED "BRAIN DRAIN".

++

TACKLE,

NO SOCIETY IS FACE THEM HONESTLY AND

T

"WHAT MATTERS IS NOT THAT WE HAVE FROBLEMS WITHOUT THEM BUT THAT WE ARE PREPARED TO TACKLE THEM REALISTICALLY," HE SAID.

THE NEXT FEW YEARS WERE IMPORTANT FOR HONG KONG, AND IT HAD MAKE SURE THAT ITS ECONOMY REMAINED DYNAMIC AND PROSPEROUS.

TO

/"WITHOUT THIS