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MR PATTEN ARRIVES

THURSDAY, JULY 9, 1992

AREAS BUSIEST RESIDENTS WITH

THE MOTORCADE CARRYING THE RT HON MR CHRISTOPHER

DROVE THROUGH SOME

AFTERNOON, (THURSDAY} GLIMPSE OF HONG KONG'S 28TH GOVERNOR.

HIS FAMILY THIS

OF THE PROVIDING

OF

PATTEN AND KOWLOON THE FIRST

COVERAGE

HIS WIFE STEPPED

OFF

PROVIDED. MANY PEOPLE

LAVENDER AND

AT PLANE THE

WITH

THE

DAUGHTERS,

ΚΑΙ

TAK

OPPORTUNITY OF SEEING MR PATTEN,

LAURA

LIVE

TELEVISION

ALICE, AND

AS THEY

INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT AT 3.05 PM.

THEY WERE MET ON THE AIRPORT TARMAC BY THE ACTING GOVERNOR, SIR DAVID FORD, AND LADY FORD.

AFTER

A

SHORT

REST IN THE

AIRPORT

VIP

MR ROOM,

PATTEN, ACCOMPANIED BY SIR DAVID AND THE GOVERNOR'S AIDE-DE-CAMP, MR FILIPE DE OLIVEIRA, BOARDED THE FIRST CROWN CAR WHILE LADY FORD ACCOMPANIED MRS PATTEN AND THE TWO DAUGHTERS IN THE SECOND LIMOUSINE,

THEY WERE DRIVEN THROUGH THE BUSY STREETS OF KOWLOON AND WARMLY GREETED BY RESIDENTS AND CURIOUS ON-LOOKERS ALIKE.

WERE

BY

PLEASANTLY ESCORT OF BEFORE TURNING

RESIDENTS OF CHUN SEEN MEI CHUEN, A HOUSING ESTATE OPERATED THE HOUSING SOCIETY, AND SCHOOL CHILDREN IN THE AREA WERE SURPRISED AS THE GOVERNOR'S MOTORCADE, ACCOMPANIED BY AN POLICE MOTORCYCLISTS, PASSED THROUGH FU NING STREET ONTO ARGYLE STREET TOWARDS MONG KOK.

IN THE ONTO

PASSING ALONG WATERLOO ROAD, SCHOOL CHILDREN WHO STUDY HO MAN TIN AREA WAVED HAPPILY AS THE ENTOURAGE PASSED AND TURNED

NATHAN ROAD. HONG KONG'S MOST WELL-KNOWN STREET

-

RESIDENTS

OF

—

MONG KOK ONE OF THE MOST

DENSELY

POPULATED AND HIS

RESIDENTIAL AREAS IN THE WORLD GREETED THE NEW GOVERNOR FAMILY WITH SMILES AND FRIENDLY WAVES; WHILE IN TSIM SHA TSUI, CURIOUS TOURISTS TOOK THE OPPORTUNITY TO RECORD THE EVENT WITH THEIR CAMERAS.

CENTRE

THE MOTORCADE TURNED ONTO SALISBURY ROAD PASSING A HOTELS AND THE ELABORATE HONG KONG CULTURAL

PIER MUSEUM,

AT THE KOWLOON PUBLIC BEFORE ARRIVING HARBOUR TRIP ABOARD THE GOVERNOR'S LAUNCH, THE LADY MAURINE.

NUMBER OF AND SPACE FOR THE

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