MONDAY, AUGUST 12, 1991
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DEPOSITORS' REQUEST FOR FURTHER MEETING DECLINED
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A GROUP OF DEPOSITORS OF THE BANK OF CREDIT AND COMMERCE HONG CALLING ON KONG LIMITED (BCCHK) HAVE MADE KNOWN THEIR INTENTION OF
4.30 PM TODAY SECRETARY FOR MONETARY AFFAIRS, MR DAVID NENDICK, AT (MONDAY) TO DEMAND A PUBLIC APOLOGY IN RESPECT OF COMMENTS LAST WEEK.
MR NENDICK HAD AN HOUR'S MEETING
OF THE DEPOSITORS IN WHICH REPRESENTATIVES SAID IN PRESS INTERVIEWS THE PREVIOUS DAY.
HAD
HE MADE
WITH
ON SATURDAY HE CLARIFIED WHAT HE
FIVE HAD
THAT BCCHK
FOR AN ORCHESTRATED
HE MADE IT CLEAR THAT HE HAD NOT BEEN SUGGESTING
RESPONSIBLE BEEN DEPOSITORS
GENERAL IN CAMPAIGN OF RUMOUR MONGERING.
IF DISRUPTIVE ELEMENTS HAD BEEN AT WORK, AND AS YET THERE NO HARD EVIDENCE OF THIS, IT WOULD HAVE BEEN CONFINED TO A VERY NUMBER OF INDIVIDUALS, THE SECRETARY SAID.
WAS
SMALL
OF BCCHK
HE ADDED THAT HE WAS CERTAIN THAT THE VAST MAJORITY DEPOSITORS HAD BEHAVED, AND WOULD CONTINUE TO BEHAVE IN A RESPONSIBLE, RESTRAINED AND DIGNIFIED MANNER.
APOLOGISE
FOR HIS
ON THEIR A PRESS
WHILST MR NENDICK DID NOT FEEL ABLE TO EARLIER REMARKS, HE SAID HE WAS CONCERNED AT THE WAY THESE REMARKS HAD BREN DISTORTED IN SOME OF THE MEDIA REPORTS AND APOLOGISED REACTION, BEHALF FOR THIS AND FOR THE CONSEQUENT PUBLIC RELEASE WAS ISSUED FOLLOWING THE MEETING.
PURPOSE
NO NENDICK FEELS THAT IN ALL THE CIRCUMSTANCES, MR
AND HE HAS WOULD BE SERVED BY ANY FURTHER MEETING WITH DEPOSITORS
ANY IF THERE ARE TO MEET THEM THIS AFTERNOON. THEREFORE DECLINED FURTHER COMMENTS THEY WISH TO MAKE, THESE SHOULD BE PUT IN WRITING.
MONTHLY AIR QUALITY REPORT RELEASED
AT
THE ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION DEPARTMENT RELEASED THE AIR QUALITY MEASUREMENTS OBTAINED IN THE
THE MONG MONITORING STATIONS.
(EPD)
TODAY
MONTH
CENTRAL/WESTERN KOK,
AND KWAI
CHUNG
(MONDAY) OF JULY AIR QUALITY
THIS IS THE FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT MADE WILL BE MADE REGULARLY ON A MONTHLY BASIS.
AND
SIMILAR
THE
ANNOUNCEMENT
ANNOUNCEMENT
TYPICAL FOR
19
LEVELS
AN EPD SPOKESMAN SAID THE PURPOSE OF
THE MEASUREMENTS ENABLE THE PUBLIC TO KNOW POLLUTANTS TO WHICH THE GENERAL POPULATION IN AN AREA IS EXPOSED.
888
TO
OF
/HE SAID
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