3SS
Some of the work done for the handicappe
in Hong Kong is second to none in the world.
but as the green paper
showed there is an urgent need to widen its
coverage as quickly as the training of
personnel and the provision of buildings
will allow. I think that the 5-year course should we have set outselves is realistic and will
vastly change the present situation.
Dr. Fang and his committee and the various
heads of departments and voluntary agencies
involved can count on the strong support
of the Government in pushing this programme
forward.
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Payments Public Assistance
The Public Assistance scheme is the
main instrument by which the Government ensure
that all its citizens are maintained above
the subsistence level. The scheme had a
serious defect in that able bodied persons
bewteen 16 and 55 were excluded though not
their families. This defect was remedied 1
last year, the plate
The real value of the payments made
under the scheme is maintained by reference
to a special price index. This now shows
that an increase of
17 1/2 %
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