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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12, 1991

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"STAMPS HAVE BECOME MINIATURE WORKS OF ART.

'BACH ISSUE IS AN ATTEMPT TO OUTDO THE PREVIOUS ONES, HE SAID.

NO WONDER STAMPS HAD A FASCINATION FOR COLLECTORS SIR DAVID SAID, NOTING THAT HONG KONG'S FIRST COMMEMORATIVE ISSUE IN 1891 WAS SO POPULAR THAT IT CAUSED CROWD CONTROL PROBLEMS.

"TODAY, HONG KONG PHILATELY HAS A LARGE AND DEDICATED FOLLOWING THAT WAITS EAGERLY FOR THE FIVE SPECIAL ISSUES EACH YEAR, SIR SAID.

DAVID

EXHIBITION ILLUSTRATES DEVELOPMENT OF POSTAL SERVICE IN HK

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MORE THAN 300 [TEMS OF EXHIBITS, INCLUDING STAMPS AND ARTEFACTS, DEPICTING THE DEVELOPMENT OF LOCAL POSTAL SERVICE WILL BE ON DISPLAY AT THE URBAN COUNCIL'S HONG KONG MUSEUM OF HISTORY FROM TODAY (WEDNESDAY) TO AUGUST 4.

THE "150 YEARS OF POSTAL SERVICE IN HONG KONG" EXHIBITION, POINTLY PRESENTED BY THE URBAN COUNCIL AND THE HONG KONG POST OFFICE, TO COMMEMORATE THE 150TH ANNIVERSARY OF POSTAL SERVICE IN HONG KONG, WAS OPENED BY THE GOVERNOR, SIR DAVID WILSON, THIS MORNING.

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SPRAKING AT THE EXHIBITION'S OPENING, THE CHAIRMAN OF THE URBAN COUNCIL DR RONALD LEUNG, SAID HONG KONG HAD EMERGED AS A METROPOLIS AND A MAJOR FINANCIAL CENTRE IN THE PAST ONE-AND-A-HALF CENTURY, AND THE HONG KONG POST OFFICE

GROWN ON PAR WITH THE DEVELOPMENT OF THIS GREAT CITY.

HAD

"HONG KONG HAS CHANGED A LOT THROUGHOUT THE YEARS, AND THE POST OFFICE HAS GROWN WITH IT AND MAINTAINED ITS PARAMOUNT PLACE IN PROVIDING EXCELLENT SERVICE IN COMMUN LEATION, DR LEUNG SAID.

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IT IS HOPED THAT VIEWERS TO THE EXHIBITION WILL ACQUIRE COMPREHENSIVE PICTURE OF POSTAL SERVICE DEVELOPMENT OVER THE PAST 150

HE ADDED.

YEARS,

ALSO OFFICIATED AT THE OPENING WERE THE CHAIRMAN OF THE COUNCIL'S MUSEUMS SELECT COMMITTEE, DR SAMUEL WONG; THE POSTMASTER GENERAL, MR DOMINIC S.W. WONG; AND THE DIRECTOR OF URBAN SERVICES +

IR HAIDER BARMA.

THE HONG KONG POST OFFICE WAS ESTABLISHED ON AUGUST 25, 1841. THE FIRST POST OFFICE BUILDING WAS CONSTRUCTED ON SITE ABOVE THE PRESENT ST JOHN'S CATHEDRAL AND WAS OPENED IN NOVEMBER 1841.

TO SECURE A WATERFRONT POSITION TO FACILITATE DELIVERY OF MAIL, THE GENERAL POST OFFICE HAD MOVED THREE TIMES IN THE PAST ONE-AND- HALF CENTURY, PROM QUEEN'S ROAD TO DES VOKIX ROAD AND THEN TO THE EXISTING LOCATION AT CONNAUGHT PLACE AS A RESULT OF DIFFERENT PHASES

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CF RECLAMATION.

PHONG KONG'S