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Speech by Bon. Graham Barnes, CBE, ?, Secretary for Lands and Works at Legislative Council on 4 Mav 1988

Budget Debate

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SECRETARY FOR LANDS AND WORKS:

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there is a common theme in all the suggestions and comments on ands and Works matters made by my uneéŝicial colleagues in this debate, it is change and the need to adapt to it. This is scarcely surprising as it is hard.to recall any period when the whole of the economy and the environment seemed to be undergoing such dynamic change as it is now undergoing. It is the aim of

Public investment

of Policies the Administration by planning, and adjustment to meet the challenges imposed by, for instance, the massive increase in the throughput of the port, the radical changes of emphasis manufacturing industry, the spectacular growth of the financial and service industries and the increasing

of our urban infrastructure and "That

of our urban,

obsolescence of much I suspect is the reason why

building stock. Most of these points were addressed in

some

session.

in Your Excellency's speech in opening this legislative

One such change motivated Mr. Stephen Cheong's. plea for a third industrial estate. This proposal has already received the support of the Industry Development Board, and definition of various sites and development

Sites programmes for forming at least one of these, probably in

e south-eastern part of Junk Bay New Town, is being worked on as a matter of urgency. As regards the demand for waterfront sites for industry, it is clear that we do not presently have nearly enough waterfront sites for all those who need them. The scale of demand has shown that,

whoever is to be the final user, very large areas of land

need to be formed from the sea as soon as possible.

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