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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1988

FEW CAN RIVAL HK'S CONVENTION FACILITIES: GOVERNOR

EXHIBITION

HAT FACILITIES

HONG

WITH THE OPENING OF THE HONG KONG CONVENTION AND CENTRE, FEW CITIES IN THE WORLD WILL RIVAL THE KONG CAN OFFER, THE GOVERNOR, SIR DAVID WILSON, SAID TOLA FRI All.

FNTRE,

OFFICIATING AT THE INAUGURATION CEREMONY OF THE SIR DAVID SAID HONG KONG HAD LONG NEEDED

PURPOSE-BUILT CONVENTION AND EXHIBITION CENTRE TO

ITS FULL ROLE AS AN INTERNATIONAL

COMMERCIAL CENTRE.

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"IT NOW HAS ONE, THE GOVERNOR SAID.

WATCHED

SIR DAVID SAID HE HAD

WITH ANTICIPATION AS THIS ENORMOUS COMPLEX HAD DOMINATE THE HONG KONG WATERFRONT.

INTEREST, ADMIRATION RISEN SO DRAMATICALLY

AND

ΤΟ

ONE ROOF A

RANGE

OF

IN

AND

"THIS NEW CENTRE BRINGS TOGETHER UNDER SUPERB FACILITIES AND STATE-OF-THE-ART EQUIPMENT, VERY FEW CENTRES

SUCH THE WORLD HAVE

FULLY INTEGRATED OR FLEXIBLE CONVENTION

BONUS OF SPECTACULAR HARBOUR EXHIBITION FACILITIES, PLUS THE ADDED VIEWS AND TWO HOTELS INCLUDED IN THE COMPLEX, SIR DAVID SAID,

ALWAYS HAD BEEN, AN

AND HE POINTED OUT THAT HONG KONG WAS, ATTRACTIVE PLACE FOR CONVENTIONS AND EXHIBITIONS.

OF

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CULTURAL SIR DAVID

"NO WONDER. WHAT CITY IN THE WORLD CAN OFFER SUCH A COMBINATION

A DYNAMIC

OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP;

FASCINATING MIX LIFESTYLES; DRAMATIC SCENERY; AND GEOGRAPHICAL CONVENIENCE, REMARKED.

AND DEDICATION OF ALL

CENTRE INTO BEING.

THOSE

MAGNIFICENT

SIR DAVID COMMENDED THE VISION RESPONSIBLE FOR BRINGING

THIS

"IN

L

I PARTICULAR,

SHOULD LIKE ΤΟ CONGRATULATE THE TRADE LYDIA DUNN, DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL, UNDER THE ABLE HAIRMANSHIP OF MISS

PACKAGE AND SUPERVISI WHO PUT TOGETHER THE IMAGINATIVE DEVELOPMENT

THE OTHER PARTNER IN ITS DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION; AS KELI AS PROJECT, THE NEW WORLD DEVELOPMENT CO. UNDER DR Y.T. CHENG.

THIS

HAD PLAYED

SIR DAVID ALSO POINTED OUT THAT THE GOVERNMENT TOO ITS PART BOTH IN ENCOURAGING THE PROJECT AND BY PROVIDING THE SITE NIL PREMIUM.

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WHICH

THE HONG KONG

SUPERB CENTRE "THE RESULT OF ALL THESE EFFOITS IS THIS

ΤΟ BENEFITS WILL BRING SUBSTANTIAL AND LONG LASTING COMMUNITY NOW AND IN THE FUTURE, SIF DAVID SAID.

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