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FRIDAY, JULY 3, 1992

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LORD WILSON ATTENDS FAREWELL COMMUNITY RECEPTION

(FRIDAY)

THE GOVERNOR, LORD WILSON, AND HTS FAMILY THIS EVENING ATTENDED A FAREWELL COMMUNITY RECEPTION AT A CHINESE RESTAURANT IN CITY HALL. SPEAKING IN REPLY TO A TOAST PROPOSED BY THE CHIEF SECRETARY, SIR DAVID FORD, THE GOVERNOR SAID:

"CHIEF SECRETARY, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN,

THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH FOR COMING HERE TODAY TO SAY GOODBYE.

IT IS SAD SAYING GOODBYE. IT ALWAYS IS. AND TO SAY GOODBYE TO MY

A PLACE LIKE HONG KONG, IN WHICH I HAVE SPENT MUCH OF MY LIFE AND FAMILY HAS NOW SPENT MUCH OF THEIR LIVES, THAT'S DOUBLY SAD.

BUT IT ISN'T SIMPLY SAD. BUT THERE'S IS A MUCH MORE TO IT THAN THAT. I'VE BEEN HERE, WE HAVE BEEN HERE FOR FIVE TUMULTUOUS YEARS AND WE HAVE SEEN HONG KONG SURVIVE, PROSPER AND GROW STRONG. MUCH OF THAT IS DUE TO ALL OF YOU HERE IN THIS ROOM, AND IS ALSO DUE TO THE HUNDREDS AND THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE WHO ARE NOT IN THIS ROOM, THE PEOPLE OF HONG KONG.

ΤΟ HAVE SERVED HERE WITH YOU DURING THAT PERIOD TO SEE THAT RESILIENCE, THAT SUCCESS, HAS BEEN A GREAT JOY, AND IT'S THAT

JOY, IT'S THAT SENSE OF SUCCESS THAT WE WILL CARRY WITH ES WHEN WE GO HONG KONG,

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IT'S

IT WILL BE A VERY STRANGE PEELING LEAVING HERE TONIGHT, HARD AT THE MOMENT TO IMAGINE THAT WE ARF LEAVING IN A FEW HOURS. TODAY HAS BEEN, UP TO NOW, A MORE OR LESS ORDINARY WORKING DAY, LIKE EVERYDAY IN HONG KONG ES. I KNOW OF NO PLACE WHICH FITS MORE ORDINARY WORKING DAY INTO THE GEAR THAN HONG KONG.

BUT WHEN WE LEWI. YOU CAN BE SURE THAT WE WILL CONTINUE, ALL OF MY FAMILY, TO PAY VERY CLOSE ATTENTION TO WHAT IS HAPPENING HERE. WE SHALL BE WATCHING WITH INTENSE INTEREST, GREAT SYMPATHY, AND WHATEVER SUPPORT WE CAN GIVE EVERYTHING THAT YOU ARE DOING HERE AS YOU WORK FOR BUILDING A SUCCESSFUL LONG-TERM FUTURE FOR TIL PEOPLE OF HONG KONG. AND THAT IS THE THOUGHT WHICH I WOULD LIKE TO LEAVE WITH YOU.

THERE WILL BE FOR US A VERY LARGE PLACE IN OUR HEARTS CALLED HONG HÙNG, AND I WOULD LIKE, IF I MAY, TO ASK YOU TO JOIN WITH ME IN A TOAST.

AND THAT IS A TOAST QUITE SIMPLY TO HONG KONG. TO HONG KONG.

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TRIBUTE TO LORD WILSON

THE CHIEF SECRETARY, SIR DAVID FORD. THIS (FRIDAY) EVENING PAID TRIBUTE TO THE GOVERNOR, LORD WILSON, FOR HIS LEADERSHIP AND TOTAL COMMITMENT TO THE WELL-BEING OF THE PEOPLE OF HONG KONG.

IN A TOAST TO LORD WILSON AT A FAREWELL COMMUNITY RECEPTION ATTENDED BY SOME 800 WELL-WISHERS AT THE CITY HALL CHINESE RESTAURANT, SIR DAVID SAID:

"SIR, IT