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Now that brings me to the second part of your question. We do, which is pretty unusual, every year produce our progress report in which we say very frankly and candidly where we have fallen behind with targets as well as where we have met them. Overwhelmingly we have met our targets but there are some that we haven't quite met and I think the main reason in the social welfare field is that we have had more difficulty than we would have liked in getting premises for some of the capital projects that we want to build.

We have managed to haul back some of the lost time in one or two areas and I think we will get pretty close to our targets in most areas or match our targets or even exceed our targets next year. But where we don't do so I want us to go on having the maturity to own up to it and to explain to the community why rather than to draw a veil over things. I think that is part of the development and growing-up of government and of an open community like Hong Kong.

Question (in Chinese): Good morning. I don't really have a question for the Governor, but I don't want to see him go. He has done a lot for Hong Kong. I would like to get a photograph of Mr Governor, a signed photograph as a souvenir. Could that be done?

Governor: Certainly. If you leave your name, we'll send you a signed photograph but alas for reasons which go back almost a century I won't be able to stay beyond 30 June, 1997. I'm sure you will have a Chief Executive who will be equally profligate with his photographs and I'm sure that you'll want his or her photograph as well and you'll have a very good Chief Executive, I'm certain.

Question (in Chinese): I think you have worked extremely hard in the past few years.

Governor: Thank you very much indeed. Thank you very much.

Presenter: And may we, Mr Patten, say thank you very much indeed, not for your just coming in today but for all the five years of your Governorship. It's been a very good exercise in transparency and Radio Television Hong Kong channels 1, 3 and 5 have been very pleased to take part in it and we hope that we do have the opportunity before you leave finally our shores to have another chance to talk to you.

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