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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1990

GOVT WELCOMED BUSH'S VETO OF TRADE BILL

OF THE TEXTILES, APPAREL

BY THE DIRECTOR-GENERAL

AND

NEWS OF PRESIDENT BUSH'S VETO FOOTWEAR BILL WAS TODAY (SATURDAY) WELCOMED OF TRADE, MR T.H. CHAU.

ALREADY PASSED BY

"THE DECISION WAS NOT UNEXPECTED AS PRESIDENT BUSH HAD INDICATED HIS INTENTION TO VETO THE BILL WHEN IT WAS FIRST THE SENATE, " MR CHAU SAID.

THE ENACTMENT

OF THE BILL WOULD NOT "WE WELCOME THE VETO.

TALKS UNDER THE ONLY SERIOUSLY JEOPARDISE THE MULTILATERAL TEXTILES

STAGE, BUT THE GATT URUGUAY ROUND WHICH HAS ENTERED INTO A CRITICAL SUCCESSFUL CONCLUSION OF THE ROUND AS A WHOLE," HE ADDED.

MONITORING CLOSELY

MR CHAU SAID THE TRADE DEPARTMENT WOULD BE ACTION BY THE CONGRESS TO OVERRIDE THE PRESIDENT'S VETO AND EXPRESSED HOPE THAT THE PRESIDENTIAL VETO WOULD NOT BE OVERTURNED BY CONGRESS.

SIR DAVID TRENCH FUND FINANCES MORE THAN 3,000 PROJECTS

FUND FOR

RECREATION HAD FINANCED ABOUT THE SIR DAVID TRENCH 3,000 NON-CAPITAL AND 170 CAPITAL WORKS PROJECTS FOR VARIOUS PURPOSES FOR RECREATION AND CULTURE, IN THE PAST 20 YEARS, THE COMMISSIONER MRS SHELLEY LAU, SAID TODAY (SATURDAY).

DAVID COUNCIL

SPEAKING AT THE OPENING CEREMONY OF A SEMINAR ON THE SIR TRENCH FUND FOR RECREATION AT THE AUDITORIUM OF THE HONG KONG OF SOCIAL SERVICE, MRS LAU SAID THOUSANDS OF RESIDENTS OF ALL AGES, ESPECIALLY YOUNG PEOPLE, HAD BENEFITTED FROM THESE PROJECTS.

KONG DURING THE

IN RESULTING

SOCIAL

"WITH THE RAPID ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN HONG

RISEN, HAS PAST TWO DECADES, THE STANDARD OF LIVING GREATER EXPECTATIONS AND DEMAND FOR RECREATIONAL, CULTURAL AND ACTIVITIES," SHE SAID.

PATTERNS

OF USEFUL NEEDS

CHANGES IN THE NOTING THAT THERE HAD ALSO BEEN COMMUNITY RECREATION, MRS LAU SAID TODAY'S SEMINAR PROVIDED A OPPORTUNITY FOR PARTICIPANTS TO EXCHANGE VIEWS ON THE OF RESIDENTS AND HOW THE FUND COULD BE BETTER UTILISED TO NEEDS.

MEET THESE

BETWEEN THE "IT IS ALSO MEANT TO PROMOTE BETTER UNDERSTANDING

AND TO FUND,

IMPROVE GENERAL COMMITTEE AND THE RECIPIENTS OF THE ADMINISTRATIVE EFFICIENCY IN DEALING WITH APPLICATIONS," SHE ADDED.

/ALSO ADDRESSING