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1967

Stirring Events in the Year of the Ram

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he Year of the Ram has been an exciting one for Hong Kong. The drama of the disturbances has tended to obscure the steady, but none-the-less stirring development that has gone on in the Colony. The resettlement building programme reached a remarkable milestone when its

'millionth tenant was housed. The vast Plover Cove sea inlet was sealed off, the reservoir drained of sea-water

and partly filled with fresh water from

the late summer rains. Lion Rock tunnel, through the Kowloon hills, was opened up to traffic and many other road improvements were completed. Wireless television began regular programming and colour telecasts were seen for the first time in the Colony.

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Abroad, Hong Kong goods and workman- ship were promoted by a safari caravan in East Africa, by a Hong Kong-made junk on the American Great Lakes and by trade missions.

All these are healthy indications of vigorous growth and augur well for Hong Kong as it moves into 1968—the Year of the Monkey— symbolic of energy and

progress.