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TUESDAY, JULY 16, 1991

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TWO-DAY JLG EXPERT TALKS BEGINS TOMORROW

EXPERT

TALKS IN THE JOINT LIAISON GROUP WILL HOLD ITS KONG TO DISCUSS DETAILED MATTERS RELATING TO THE ESTABLISHMENT OF COURT OF FINAL APPEAL TOMORROW (WEDNESDAY) AND ON THURSDAY.

THE BRITISH TEAM WILL BE LED BY THE DEPUTY COURT, MR BRIAN SUTTILL.

HONG THE

REGISTRAR, SUPREME

REPRESENTATIVE OF

MR GROUP, LIAISON

ZHENG

THE CHINESE TEAM WILL BE LED BY THE CHINESE THE CHINESE SIDE OF THE SINO-BRITISH JOINT WRIRONG.

THEY WILL BE ASSISTED BY OTHER EXPERTS FROM THE TWO SIDES.

HONG KONG'S NEW TOWN PROGRAMME WORLD'S LARGEST

DEVELOPMENT,

TOWN BUILDING PROGRAMME HONG KONG SHOULD BE PROUD OF ITS NEW WHICH IS THE LARGEST IN THE WORLD, DIRECTOR OF TERRITORY DR NIP KAM-FAN, SAID TODAY (TUESDAY).

ADDRESSING A LUNCHEON MEETING OF THE CITY LIONS CLUB OF KONG, HE SAID THIS PROGRAMME HAD HAD A HUGE INFLUENCE ON HONG CONTINUING STABILITY AND PROSPERITY.

DR NIP SAID THE POPULATION OF THE NEW TOWNS NOW MILLION, MORE THAN DOUBLE THE FIGURE A DECADE AGO,

HE SAID FIVE MORE NEW TOWNS HAD LIST OF THREE, AND BY THE TIME THEY WERE HOMES FOR 3.3 MILLION PEOPLE.

ADDED BEEN

COMPLETED,

"I SINCERELY BELIEVE THAT WE HAVE REASON TO TRANSFORMATION WHICH HAS TAKEN PLACE OVER THE PAST NEW TERRITORIES WITH THE LARGEST NEW TOWN BUILDING WORLD," DR NIP ADDED.

IN A SPEECH ENTITLED

"HONG

HONG

KONG'S

STOOD AT 2.3

TO THE ORIGINAL THERE WOULD BE

BE PROUD OF THE 18 YEARS IN THE PROGRAMME IN THE

ACHIEVEMENTS KONG'S

WAS

PLAN

IN THE NEW IN 1972

ANNOUNCED

TOWNS" DR NIP SAID A BOLD NEW HOUSING

FJ WITH AN AIM OF PROVIDING ADEQUATE HOUSING FOR 1.8 MILLION PEOPLE.

HE SAID THE GUIDING PRINCIPLES WERE THAT IF

NEW THE

OF THE STANDARDS WERE TO IMPROVE, PROVIDED IN THE NEW TOWNS IN THE NEW TERRITORIES.

BULK

HOUSING

THE ENVIRONMENTAL

MUST

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