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SUNDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1989

WE CAN BE PROUD OF OUR PROGRESS : GOVERNOR

THE TEXT FOLLOWING IS GOVERNOR, SIR DAVID WILSON:

OF THE NEW YEAR MESSAGE FROM THE

"THE START OF A NEW DECADE IS A GOOD TIME TO LOOK BACK AT WHAT TO THE CHALLENGES WE HAVE ACHIEVED IN THE 1980s AND TO LOOK FORWARD OF THE DECADE AHEAD.

MADE IN THE 1980s. HAVE BEEN IMPROVED

"WE CAN BE PROUD OF THE PROGRESS WE HAVE

AND TRANSPORT SERVICES OUR HOUSING, EDUCATION ENORMOUSLY. OUR STANDARD OF LIVING HAS RISEN TO HAVE BEEN UNIMAGINABLE TEN YEARS AGO. THERE IS COMMUNITY AND A GREATER UNDERSTANDING OF THE THINGS KONG THE UNIQUE SOCIETY IT IS.

A LEVEL THAT WOULD A STRONGER SENSE OF MAKE HONG

WHICH

HAVE YEAR,

ALSO IN WHICH WE LIVE. THESE NEW DIFFICULTIES FOR

"THE PAST DECADE, AND PARTICULARLY THIS PAST SREN CHANGES TO THE POLITICAL ENVIRONMENT HAVE CREATED NEW CHALLENGES FOR US TO FACE AND US TO OVERCOME.

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INDEED EDUCATIONAL

AND "WE HAVE ALREADY STARTED TO PREPARE FOR THE 1990s WELL BEYOND, INTO THE NEXT CENTURY. BY PLANNING TO EXPAND

UP THE NEW OPPORTUNITIES WE ARE LOOKING TO BUILD

GENERATIONS THAT ALSO MAKE SURE THAT HONG KONG MUST RELY ON FOR THE FUTURE. WR MUST

LEADING HONG KONG HAS ALL THE FACILITIES IT NEEDS TO CONTINUE TO BE A

THAT IS WHERE INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR TRADE, COMMERCE AND FINANCE. THE PLANS FOR A NEW AIRPORT, AND GREATLY EXPANDED PORT, BY MAKING GREATER

EFFORTS

TO

IMPROVE

FIT IN. AND

THE ENVIRONMENT,

WE

DETERMINED TO ENSURE THAT HONG KONG REMAINS A PLACE WORTH LIVING IN.

"BUT, ABOVE ALL, AS WE

ARE

LOOK FORWARD TO THE

1990B AND THE

WE MUST CHANGES THAT LIE AHEAD,

BUILD ON OUR

BEING SENSE OF

A USE THE COMMUNITY. MUCH OF OUR FUTURE LIES IN OUR OWN HANDS. WE MUST

MADE HONG ENERGY THAT HAS

KONG PROSPEROUS TO PRESERVE

VERY SPECIAL SOCIETY AND TO MAKE HONG KONG AN EVEN BETTER PLACE IN WHICH TO LIVE AND WORK.

OUR

IN WISHING "AT THE START OF THE NEW DECADE MY FAMILY JOINS ME ALL THE PEOPLE OF HONG KONG A HAPPY, HEALTHY AND PROSPEROUS 1990."

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