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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1988

TRIBUTE TO LATE SIR DAVID TRENCH

SILENCE

MEMBERS OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL OBSERVED A MINUTE'S

OF RESPECT FOR AT THE COUNCIL'S MEETING TODAY (WEDNESDAY) AS A MARK

IN ENGLAND SIR DAVID TRENCH, A FORMER GOVERNOR OF HONG KONG WHO DIED AT THE WEEKEND.

THE GOVERNOR,

IN A STATEMENT AT THE BEGINNING OF THE MEETING, SIR DAVID WILSON, PAID TRIBUTE TO THE WORK OF SIR DAVID TRENCH.

WISH TODAY TO KONG AND

SIR DAVID SAID: "I FEEL SURE THAT MEMBERS WILL MARK THE RECENT DEATH OF SIR DAVID TRENCH, GOVERNOR OF HONG PRESIDENT OF THIS COUNCIL FROM 1964-71.

THE

"SIR

CULMINATION WAS GOVERNORSHIP DAVID'S DISTINGUISHED CAREER IN THE COLONIAL SERVICE, MOST OF WHICH HERE IN HONG KONG.

OF

A

HE SPENT

"DURING HIS TERM OF OFFICE AS GOVERNOR, HONG KONG HAD TO FACE A SERIES OF SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC DIFFICULTIES,

"THAT THESE WERE OVERCOME OWED MUCH TO HIS FORTITUDE AND UNRUFFLED LEADERSHIP.

HONG

KONG

ENTERED THE

19703

"AS A RESULT CONFIDENCE IN ITS ABILITY TO DEAL WITH PROBLEMS AND INTO THE MODERN INTERNATIONAL CITY WHICH IT IS TODAY.

CALM,

WITH ENHANCED RRADY TO EXPAND

A MINUTE IN "I THINK IT WOULD BE FITTING IF WE NOW STOOD FOR SILENCE IN RESPECT FOR HIS ACHIEVEMENTS AND IN SYMPATHY FOR HIS WIDOW, LADY TRENCH.

"

PUBLIC CONSULTATION ON EXTENDED SMOKING BAN

ON A NEXT YEAR SMOKING IN CINEMAS,

PUBLIC THE

WILL BE CONSULTED EARLY ON IMPOSED RECOMMENDATION THAT A TOTAL BAN BE THEATRES, CONCERT HALLS AND PUBLIC TRANSPORT VEHICLES.

CHAU. TOLD REPLYING ΤΟ A

THE SECRETARY FOR HEALTH AND WELFARE, THE HON T.H.

WHEN (WEDNESDAY) THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL THIS TODAY QUESTION FROM THE HON EDWARD HO.

MR CHAU SAID THE

GOVERNMENT WOULD MAKE A DECISION RECOMMENDATION FOLLOWING THE PUBLIC CONSULTATION.

ON SMOKING AND

ON THE

THE HONG KONG COUNCIL

HEALTH HAD RECENTLY RECOMMENDED TO THE GOVERNMENT THAT THE SMOKING (PUBLIC HEALTH) ORDINANCE BE AMENDED, MR CHAU POINTED OUT.

MR HO HAD

IN NOTED

HIS

QUESTION

THAT UNDER

THE

EXISTING EACH CLASS OF THE SBATING ORDINANCE, NOT LESS THAN 50 PER CENT OF

PUBLIC TRANSPORT ACCOMMODATION OF A CINEMA, THEATRE, CONCERT HALL OR VEHICLE HAD TO BE SET ASIDE AS A NO SMOKING AREA.

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