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Speech by the Honourable the Chief Secretary, -Mr David Ford, LVO, OBE, JP

in the Legislative Council on !! November 1987

Debate on the Motion of Thanks

CHIEF SECRETARY:

Sir,

This debate on the Motion

the Motion of Thanks has been a

wide-ranging one, covering all the main areas of the

Government's activities and programmes. This is as it

should be, because the Governor's Annual Address provides a

unique opportunity for this Council, together with the

Administration and the community as a whole, to take stock

of where we have got to as a society, and to look ahead to

what we shall be doing to make Hong Kong an

place in which its people can live and work.

even better

have

It is

This, Sir, was your first Annual Address.

clear from the views expressed by Members in this debate

that, on the whole, the policies and plans you/described

have received the strong endorsement of this Council. On

behalf of my official colleagues on this Council and of all the other members of the public service, I pledge to you our whole-hearted support for all that you have set out to

achieve.

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