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HONG KONG ANNUAL REPORT

of a man and his family, and then to ensure that they keep good health. North Point symbolizes a problem which the founders of Hong Kong could not have foreseen, and, if they had, would not have solved in this way. But, in a wide sense, the earliest tradition of Hong Kong is being continued and extended. Hong Kong began as a harbour and has been built around it. Now it has become a safe refuge not only for ships but also for people. That feeling underlies the great constructions which are now changing the face of the Colony, more surely even than the hard Hong Kong granite.

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