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I have started with these communications projects because they are basic to Hong Kong's development. The

spreading out of the City and its population into new

areas with access to new land is essential if it is to

achieve not only better living standards but new investment, new industries and new economic flexibility. But of course the roads, railways and tunnels are only the

start; one must add to them everything from drains to swimming complexes, water supply and sewage plants to

cultural centres, offices, fire stations and police stations, which form part of Government programmes in the urban areas, the three major towns and three

smaller ones in the New Territories. And then there

are the hospitals, the clinics, the schools and so on.

It must be the largest programme undertaken by any City Public Works Department in the world.