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FRIDAY, JULY 3, 1992

SAY

BUT

"SIR, IT IS NOT OFTEN THAT WE HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY ΤΟ THANK YOU PUBLICLY TO OUR GOVERNOR, PERHAPS NOT OFTEN ENOUGH. TODAY IS SUCH AN OCCASION AND I WOULD LIKE ተን SAT A FEW WORDS ON BEHALF OF THE PEOPLE OF HONG KONG.

THE PAST YEARS HAVE NOT BEEN EASY ONES FOR HONG KONG. WE HAVE BEEN BUFFETTED BY MANY STORMS.

BUT FAR FROM BEING OVERWHELMED WE HAVE BOUNCED BACK VIGOROUSLY. OUR ECONOMY HAS FLOURISHED AND THE WHOLE COMMUNITY HAS SHARED IN THE GROWING PROSPERITY,

SO YOU WOULD BE THE FIRST TO SAY, THAT SUCCESS IS DUE LARGELY TO THE EFFORTS OF THE PEOPLE OF HONG LONG WHO ARE ITS GREATEST STRENGTH. BUT THIS SUCCESS SIR, IS ALSO DUE IN NO SMALL MEASURE ΤΟ YOUR LEADERSHIP AND YOUR TOTAL COMMITMENT TO THE WELL-BEING OF THIS COMMUNITY.

I HAVE HAD THE HONOUR OF WORKING CLOSELY WITH YOU DURING THE LAST FIVE YEARS. PERHAPS I KNOW BETTER THAN MOST THE STRESSES AND STRAINS WHICH GO WITH THE JOB OF GOVERNING HONG KONG IN THE 1980S AND 1990S.

BUT I ALSO KNOW THAT THROUGHOUT THESE DIFFICULT YEARS YOUR PERSONAL QUALITIES HAVE SHONE THROUGH. YOUR DEDICATION, YOUR WISDOM, YOUR INTEGRITY AND, ABOVE ALL, YOUR UNSWERV ING COMMITMENT TO THE PRINCIPLE OF PUTTING THE INTERESTS OF TRE PEOPLE OF HONG KONG ABOVE EVERYTHING ELSE, HAS WON YOU THE ADMIRATION AND ABIDING RESPECT OF

ALL.

US

SIR, HONG KONG HAS BEEN PRIVILEGED TO HAVE YOU AS OUR GOVERNOR OVER THE PAST FIVE YEARS.

SIR, THROUGHOUT YOUR GOVERNORSHIP YOU HAVE HAD THE UNSTINTING SUPPORT OF LADY WILSON AND PETER AND ANDREW AND THE COMMUNITY TOO HAS BENEFITTED FROM THE STRONG SENSE OF FAMILY FEELING WHICH HAS EMANATED FROM GOVERNMENT HOUSE. BUT, LADY WILSON HAS DONE MUCH MORE THAN BE A WIFE, MOTHER, AND FULL-TIME SHE HAS MADE A SUBSTANTIAL COMMITMENT TERMS OF TIME AND GENUINE GRATEFUL FOR HER EFFORTS.

HOSTESS AT GOVERNMENT HOUSE. TO NUMEROUS ORGANISATIONS IN INTEREST, AND THEY, AND WE. ARE TRULY

SIR, WE ARE VERY SAD INDEED TO SEE YOU AAND YOUR FAMILY LEAVE US. I KNOW YOU WILL ALL BE VERY SAD TO GO ALSO. BUT AS YOU CROSS THE HARBOUR IN THE LADY MAURINE AND YOU LOOK AROUND VT THIS VIBRANT CITY OF OURS, YOU CAN BE JUSTLY PROUD OF WHAT THIS HAS ACHIEVED UNDER YOUR LEADERSHIP.

WONDERFUL COMMUNITY

LEAVING. THE PEOPLE OF

SINCE IT WAS ANNOUNCED THAT YOU WERE HONG KONG HAVE EXPRESSED THEIR FEELINGS OF GRATITUDE IN MANY WAYS, AND TODAY, ON THEIR BEHALF I WOULD LIKE TO SAY A VERY SINCERE THANK YOU TO YOU AND LADY WILSON FOR ALL YOU HAVE DONE FOR US. THERE WILL. ALWAYS BE A PLACE IN OUR HEARTS FOR YOU AND YOUR FAMILY."

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