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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1990

"THIS

IS CRUCIAL TO

MAINTAINING OUR

AS

A

MAJOR THE

POSITION FINANCE, TRADE AND SERVICES CENTRE FOR THE ASIA PACIFIC REGION. NEW

INFRASTRUCTURE. AN IMPORTANT PART OF THAT

AIRPORT

IS

ALREADY POINTED AS EARLY AS 1993. LIMITED CAPACITY,

"AS THE SECRETARY FOR ECONOMIC SERVICES HAS OUT, KAI TAK IS EXPECTED TO REACH SATURATION THEREAFTER, GROWTH WILL BE CONSTRAINED BECAUSE OF AND THIS COULD HAVE AN IMPACT ON OUR ECONOMIC GROWTH," HE SAID.

GREAT DEAL OF CONSULTATION ON PADS: CS

* * *

THE CHIEF SECRETARY, THE HON SIR DAVID FORD, TODAY

SAID THAT THERE HAS BEEN A GREAT DEAL PROJECT AND THE DECISION TO BUILD THE ONE.

(WEDNESDAY)

OF CONSULTATION ON THE PADS: NEW AIRPORT WAS NOT A SUDDEN

WHOLE

THE

APPROPRIATE

NOW AND THE VARIOUS COMMITTEES

FOR

"TRUE WE DID NOT ISSUE A "PADS GREEN PAPER" COVERING THE OF THE PROJECT. BUT WE HAVE MADE NO SECRET OF WHAT WE ARE DOING, MEDIA HAS BEEN FULL OF IT FOR SEVERAL YEARS PROJECTS HAVE CONSIDERATION, SIR DAVID SAID.

SPEAKING

ALL

BEEN PUT

то THE

AT

THE CONCLUSION

OF THE RESUMED

DEBATE

ON

THE

THE YEARS

HAD BOARD SERVED ON

BEEN

THAT

GOVERNOR'S POLICY ADDRESS, SIR DAVID SAID THROUGHOUT ALL THIS PROJECT'S

THE GESTATION,

AVIATION ADVISORY CONSULTED AND SEVERAL MEMBERS OF THIS COUNCIL HAD BOARD.

"ON THE TRANSPORT FRONT, THERE HAS BEEN FULL CONSULTATION THE TRANSPORT ADVISORY COMMITTEE AND WITH THE DISTRICT BOARDS. COMMENTS ON THE GREEN PAPER "MOVING INTO THE 21ST CENTURY" WERE INTO ACCOUNT IN THE WHITE PAPER ISSUED IN JANUARY THIS YEAR.

WITH

THEIR TAKEN

"AND, OF COURSE, SERIOUS CONSIDERATION HAS ALWAYS BEEN GIVEN TO INDIVIDUALS AND PROFESSIONAL THE VIEWS AND ADVICE VOLUNTEERED BY BODIES, HE SAID.

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ATTENDED NUMEROUS PUBLIC THERE WERE PLANS FOR

SIR DAVID SAID THE GOVERNMENT HAD SEMINARS AND WERE PREPARED TO DO MORE AND TELEVISION PROGRAMMES WHICH WOULD EXPLAIN ALL ASPECTS OF THE PADS TO THE PEOPLE OF HONG KONG,

MAKE A PROJECTS, SO FAR, THE

SIR DAVID POINTED OUT THAT THE GOVERNMENT DID HAVE TO CHOICE ABOUT ITS STYLE OF CONSULTATION FOR INFRASTRUCTURAL EITHER IT CONTINUED TO DO THINGS THE WAY WE HAD DONE TRADITIONAL HONG KONG WAY OR WE MADE A DRASTIC CHANGE AND ACCEPTED THE CONSEQUENCES.

/"THE HONG