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QUESTION:

of telling.

Where has it gone

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Singapore?

SIR DAVID TRENCH: I do not think there is any way

It only comes out of the bank figures.

way it has gone to note issue.

In some

QUESTION: The point about food coming in and being

stocked at the border, could this cause anything serious?

SIR DAVID TRENCH: It could cause a temporary

disruption with temporary difficulties till we can organise

supplies from elsewhere which we can do - vegetables from

Taiwan, food from America and of course local supplies.

QUESTION:

Are you taking steps to increase imports

from Taiwan, and other steps?

SIR DAVID TRENCH: I do not think we have to. As

soon as the market is there the businessmen take the steps,

not us.

QUESTION: The strike holding up food

again what the nature of it is?

would you say

SIR DAVID TRENCH: It is the transport workers and to

1 some extent distributors being intimated and they are refusing

to move the stuff from the border, so the Chinese are

delivering the stuff to the border but the compatriots in

Hong Kong are failing to move it.

QUESTION: Is that a health hazard at all?

SIR DAVID TRENCH: It may be to them, but it is all

on their side of the border.

QUESTION: Do you think this is a misunderstanding,

and not an understanding?

SIR DAVID TRENCH: I do not know. It is very odd,

is it not? There is some lack of co-ordination somewhere and

I do not think the community are going to like this because they

are going to pay for it.

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