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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1989

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"THEIR PRIMARY ROLE IS TO FACILITATE THE CONDUCT OF COMMERCIAL RELATIONS AND TO PROMOTE INVESTMENT IN HONG KONG.

'INEVITABLY THE OVERSEAS OFFICES ARE INVOLVED IN SOME ASPECTS OF PUBLIC RELATIONS AND PROMOTIONAL WORK, HE ADDED.

OTHER

SIR PIERS NOTED MR BARROW HAD ALLUDED TO THE WORK OF

OR PRIVATE QUASI GOVERNMENT

ORGANISATIONS IN

TO RELATION PROMOTION OF HONG KONG,

THE

PART

"THE WORK CARRIED ON BY THE GOVERNMENT OFFICES FORMS ONLY OF THE OVERALL EFFORT OF PROJECTING THE IMAGE OF HONG KONG OVERSEAS, HE POINTED OUT.

THE TRADE

SIR PIERS MENTIONED THE SPECIAL RESPONSIBILITIES OF DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL AND THE TOURIST ASSOCIATION IN THIS REGARD.

WELL.

AND CO-OPERATION BETWEEN ALL THE AGENCIES WAS ESSENTIAL, ESTABLISHED CONTACTS HAD BEEN MADE BY THE STAFF OF THE GOVERNMENT'S OVERSEAS OFFICES WITH THEIR COUNTERPARTS FROM THE TRADE DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL, THE TOURIST ASSOCIATION AND BRANCHES OF HONG KONG FIRMS, SAID.

HE

"SO FAR THIS CLOSE CO-OPERATION HAS WORKED WELL, AND WHERE NECESSARY WE WILL OF COURSE STRENGTHEN IT IN THE INTERESTS OF PROMOTING HONG KONG'S STATUS, SIR PIERS ADDED.

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NO EVIDENCE TO SHOW MOBILE PHONES CAUSE ACCIDENTS

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SHOW THE USE OF MOBILE VEHICLE DRIVERS HAS BEEN A CONTRIBUTORY CAUSE OF TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS, THE SECRETARY FOR TRANSPORT, THE HON MICHAEL LEUNG, TOLD THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY).

THERE IS NO STATISTICAL EVIDENCE TO TELEPHONES BY

MR LEUNG REPLYING TO A QUESTION FROM THE HON PETER H.Y. WONG,

OF HAND-HELD TELEPHONES TO SAID IT WAS DIFFICULT TO RELATE THE USE

HAD OBSERVED THE TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS DIRECTLY UNLESS A POLICE OFFICER

VEHICLE

A TELEPHONE AT

TIME OF SUCH

THE

AN DRIVER OF A

USING TELEPHONES WHILE ACCIDENT, OR THE DRIVERS THEMSELVES ADMITTED DRIVING.

USING

THE USE OF CAR OR MOBILE FROM A ROAD SAFETY POINT OF VIEW,

DISCOURAGED, TELEPHONES WHILE DRIVING WAS NOT DESIRABLE AND SHOULD BE MR LEUNG SAID.

SUCH ADVICE WAS CONTAINED IN THE ROAD USERS' CODE PUBLISHED

IN

1987.

THE SAME SAFETY MESSAGE WOULD BE PUBLICISED AGAIN

SHORTLY, HE

ADDED.

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