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are volunteering to return, are going to present an
increasingly difficult management problem in the camps.
BRITISH CONSULATE GENERAL
7.
Christina cast her architect's eye over the various
possible sites. There are two good prospects, and Hong Kong
is at last talking in terms which make a prestigious building
financially achievable. Either site will need clearance with
the Chinese for Land Commission purposes, and I hope that
things will be far enough advanced for me to raise this when I
visit Peking in July.
BUSINESS
8.
I found business people more confident and more
optimistic than last autumn. There is some scepticism about
the feasibility of the Airport Development Scheme, and Chinese
support for it will clearly be essential. We visited Castle
Peak Power Station, which as you would expect is bigger, more
efficient, and was built more quickly than any other power
station anywhere else in the world. Extra excitement was
provided by the bolt of lightning which narrowly missed our
helicopter to find its mark on the power station chimney.
was probably the biggest bolt of lightning in the world.
It
MACAO
9. I paid a brisk visit to Macao. It shows no signs of
catching up with Hong Kong. The Governor is well informed but
disinclined to be helpful on boat people. I mistakenly
believed that half of the boat people come by land to Macao
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