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To accomplish these objectives, Mr Patten said the City University would have to apply scholarly activities for its students to meet the needs of society in Hong Kong,

"It implies being responsive to changing concepts, to technical processes and development, to the changing needs of industry and commerce, and to the changing requirements of the students themselves," he said.

He said the University will also have to educate its students to come to terms with the problems facing society at large in the next century.

These problems include the depletion of natural resources, the growth in population, the revolution in forms of communication and travel, and the intrusion of new technologies into people's lives.

End/Thursday, May 11, 1995

Agricultural delegation departs for Australia on Saturday

A 29-member delegation will depart for Australia and New Zealand on Saturday (May 13) to study agricultural production technology and marketing facilities and services in these two countries.

The two-week long visit is an annual study programme organised since 1977 jointly by the Agriculture and Fisheries Department (AFD), Vegetable Marketing Organisation (VMO) and the Federation of Vegetable Marketing Co-operative Societies (Federation).

To mark the occasion, AFD's Director Dr Lawrence Lee presented a banner to the delegation at a ceremony held at the department's headquarters this (Thursday) morning.

Speaking at the ceremony, Dr Lee said the objective of the annual event was to offer local farmers an opportunity to study modern techniques and systems of overseas countries' agricultural production and marketing.

He said: "By participating in the delegation, farmers would be able to exchange experience with these countries' agricultural organisations with a view to upgrading farming knowledge and promoting each others' agricultural development."