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advisory bodies and partly because their membership was not sufficiently widely based. He thought that these bodies should be given more powers and that their members should be drawn both from the Urban Council and from persons outside
In this both the Legislative Council and the Urban Council. manner they would be able to include more people with specialised knowledge and experience of the particular subjects with which each Board was concerned.
Education
3.
So far as education was concerned, Mr. Ruttonjee considered it important that children living in resettlement areas should have facilities available to them for study in the evenings. Such an arrangement would help to keep them off the streets and to meet a very real desire for further learning amongst such children. He did not think that Communist schools presented a real danger at the moment, but they would not hesitate to step in and provide any facilities in any area in which the Hong Kong authorities failed to provide them. standard of education provided by Communist schools (leaving aside political indoctrination) was quite good:
it was
generally better than that provided in private non Communist schools, but not as good as that in Government schools.
City District Officer Scheme
4.
The
Mr. Ruttonjee had his doubts whether the scheme would
He achieve the purpose for which it had been established. considered that the persons appointed to the posts of City District Officer were first class men, but he doubted whether
In any the scheme would appeal to the Chinese mentality. event he considered the scheme well worth a trial.
Ombudsman
5.
Mr. Ruttonjee thought that the success or failure of such an appointment in Hong Kong would depend very largely on
It would be the extent of the powers given to the ombudsman. essential for the latter to be responsible direct to the Governor and to no one else in the Colony.
HONG KONG DEPARTMENT