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lobby, which has held sway for many
years
Masis going to have
increased difficulty in pressing its
view not only in the Government but in
the Council. A strong liberal element
can be counted on to provide a cogently
argued case for reasonable reform
both in labour legislation and welfare
programmes".
With the agreement of HMG, the Hong Kong
Government announced that in labour and
social legislation its goal was broad
comparability with neighbouring Asian
countries within 5 years, and legislation
was immediately announced to close the
most glaring gap disparity in the
amount of paid holidays to which workers
were entitled. My own impression is
that within the next few years Hong Kong's
provision for workers will not only be
broadly equal, but in practice considerably
superior, to that of her neighbours.
After years of backbreaking and often
frustrating disappointments in our efforts
to curb crime and corruption, in 1975
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a precarious plateau was reached; in
1976 at last violent crime and corruption