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REMARKS AT THIS PARTICULAR TIME AND FOR WHAT PURPOSE HE HAD MADE THE REMARKS.
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A MEMBER OF THE PROVISIONAL AIRPORT AUTHORITY HO SAI-CHU, WHO WAS ALSO A MEMBER OF CPPCC, BELIEVED THAT THE CHINESE SIDE AGREED TO THE CONSTRUCTION OF NEW AIRPORT AFTER THEY HAD STUDIED THE INFORMATION ON THE PROJECT, THE PAPERS (16.6) REPORTED. HE SAID THAT CHINA UNDERSTOOD THAT THERE WAS A NEED TO BUILD THE AIRPORT IN HK AND THAT THE PROJECT WOULD HELP MAINTAIN HK PEOPLE'S CONFIDENCE. CHINA HAD BEEN WORRIED ABOUT WHETHER HK COULD MEET THE COSTS OF THE PROJECT, HE SAID. MR HO SAID CHINA HAD NEVER OPPOSED THE PROJECT.
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15. THE NUMBER OF HK EMIGRANTS TO AUSTRALIA HAD RISEN BY 25 PER CENT AFTER THE JUNE 4 INCIDENT, RTHK AND A FEW PAPERS (19.6) REPORTED. IN THE 12 MONTHS ENDING IN JUNE THIS YEAR, AND ESTIMATED RECORD HIGH OF 13,000 HK PEOPLE HAD EMIGRATED TO THE COUNTRY. IT WAS NOTED THAT THE EMIGRANTS HAD BROUGHT WITH THEM US DOLLARS 780
MILLION TO AUSTRALIA.
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DEFENCE D
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MR MCLAREN
SIR A WATTS
MR BURNS
MR MOSS
MR BLATHERWICK
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