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HONG KONG GOVERNMENT QUARTERLY REPORTS: POINTS TO NOTE
Item IV on the provisional upenda for the third meeting of the Standing Committee to Monitor the Planning Paper is "Points arising from the most recent batch of quarterly progress reports from Hong Kong. These reports cover the period from 1 November to 31 January and are, inevitably, somewhat out of date.
Security Branch
1.
Activities include:
(u) plans to improve control over TRIAD gange in Hong Kong. Proposals to amond oxiuting legiulation are being considered;
(b) an up-dating of contingency plans to deal with a large- Bondo influx of muni gruntn from China in an emergency;
(c) arrangements for the orderly roputriation to Hong Kong of Hong Kong; bolongeru deported from The Netherlands; and
(d) consideration of monturen to improve fucilities for the treatment of drug addict, up well 103 the establishment of a central registor.
Environment Branch
2.
(u) 133 acres of land at Lye Mun barracks were taken over from the Army in accordance with the 1975 Defence Costs Agreement. The balance ig due to be taken over and the site will then be developed as a public park;
(b) notice of the intention to designate three country parks was published in December 1976; and
(c) provision is being made for one swimming pool oomplex per 250,000 people and for District Recreation Services (Appendix D, parygraph 20 or the Plauming Paper).
Civil Service Brouch
3. Effort are being made to bring certain Civil Service staff unions into some form of central contu bative machinery. Professor Turner will be looking into the Government's labour relution machinery during the second plage of his Study of Labour Relations.
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