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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1991

GOVERNOR CONFIDENT NEW AIRPORT WOULD BE COMPLETED ON TIME

WOULD

THE GOVERNOR, SIR DAVID WILSON, SAID TODAY (SATURDAY) THAT WAS CONFIDENT

NEW AIRPORT THE FIRST RUNWAY OF THE THAT COMPLETED ON TIME.

HE BE

SPEAKING TO REPORTERS AFTER VISITING CHEK LAP KOK THIS MORNING, SIR DAVID SAID: "IT'S IMPORTANT THAT WE SHOULD GET AHEAD AND WE SHOULD TRY TO COMPLETE THE FIRST RUNWAY ON TIME, THAT IS DURING 1997,"

COMMENTING ON THE PRICING OF THE AIRPORT PROJECT, THE SAID THERE HAD BEEN NO CHANGE IN THE ESTIMATE OF THE PRICES.

"WHAT

THE HAS BEEN IS A BRIEFING PREPARED FOR THERE COMMITTER WHICH EXPLAINS WHAT PRICING IN REAL TERMS, REAL TERM HAVE NOT CHANGED.

GOVERNOR

FINANCE PRICES

BE

"BUT IF YOU'RE LOOKING ABOUT THE AMOUNT OF ACTUAL MONEY TO SPENT IN THE YEAR THAT IT WILL BE SPENT, WHICH IS WHAT'S CALLED PRICES OF THE DAY; MONEY OF THE DAY, THEN YOU HAVE TO ALLOW FOR INFLATION.

PRICE WOULD BE ALLOWING FOR INFLATION. IN REAL TERMS HAVE NOT ALTERED AT ALL,

"SO AN ESTIMATE WAS GIVEN TO THE FINANCE COMMITTEE OF WHAT

BUT THE REAL PRICE, THE SIR DAVID SAID.

THE PRICE.

VISIT,

THE CHIEF

OF

THE GOVERNOR

DURING THE

EXECUTIVE OFFICER PROVISIONAL AIRPORT AUTHORITY, MR RICHARD ALLEN, BRIEFED THE ON THE PROGRESS OF WORK BEING CARRIED OUT AT CHEK LAP KOK,

"I'VE JUST BEEN TOLD THE ADVANCE WORKS WILL BE COMPLETED DURING NEXT YEAR, THAT IS '92, AND WILL BE STARTING WORK ON THE MAIN PLATFORM DURING 1992 BECAUSE THERE'S AN IMMENSE AMOUNT OF WORK TO BE DONE

SIR DAVID SAID. THEY HAVE TO GET ON WITH IT VERY FAST,

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AND

DOWN AS SENIOR ASKED ABOUT MR ALLEN LEE'S DECISION TO STEP

AS A MEMBER OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL, SIR DAVID SAID IT HAD COME SURPRISE TO HIM, BUT HE ADDED: "IT'S SOMETHING THAT HE MUST DECIDE FOR HIMSELF.

"IT'S VERY MUCH A PERSONAL DECISION. AND NOW IT MUST BE UP LEGCO, FOR THE MEMBERS OF LEGGO, TO DECIDE WHAT STEPS TO TAKE

HE SAID.

ON

ΤΟ

NEXT,

THINK

"THE ONE POINT I WOULD MAKE ABOUT MR ALLEN LEE IS THAT I HE HAS DONE A VERY GOOD JOB AS SENIOR MEMBER, NOT JUST IN THE LAST FEW WEEKS SINCE THE NEW LEGCO, BUT IN THE LONG PERIOD HE SERVED AS MEMBER BEFORE THAT. AND I WOULD LIKE TO THANK HIM FOR THE HE'S DONE," SIR DAVID SAID.

SENIOR

WORK THAT

AS

LEGCO IT'S

"WHAT WE'VE GOT IS, I THINK, AN EVOLVING SITUATION,

то CONDUCT CHANGES, SO

OF THE WAY IN WHICH LEGCO WANTS SOME BUSINESS IS BOUND TO CHANGE.

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