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Budget Speech on Internet

The full text of the 1996-97 Budget Speech delivered by the Financial Secretary. Mr Donald Tsang, in the Legislative Council today (Wednesday), is now available to Internet users via the Hong Kong Government Home Page at website http://www.info.gov.hk.

Copies of the Budget Speech will also be available for collection by members of the public from the Publishing Sub-division of the Government Information Services from 10 am and from all district offices from 4 pm tomorrow (Thursday).

A budget guide highlighting the major points of the 1996-97 budget and how they affect the average Hong Kong citizen is now being distributed free to the public.

Entitled "What the 1996 Budget Means for You". the leaflet is a bilingual publication with 200,000 copies to be issued by the Government today.

The easy-to-read leaflet, giving budget facts and figures at a glance. is now available at:

* Mass Transit Railway stations in Central, Causeway Bay, Mong Kok, Wong

Tai Sin, Kwun Tong, Tsim Sha Tsui, Tsuen Wan;

*Kowloon and Sha Tin stations of the Kowloon-Canton Railway Corporation:

and from 4.30 pm to 7 pm at:

*the Publishing Sub-Division of the Government Information Services, 17th

floor, Siu On Centre, 188 Lockhart Road, Wan Chai:

* the Government Publications Centre. Queensway Government Offices. Lower

Block, ground floor, 66 Queensway, and

* all district offices.

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