4.
review in depth of what the policies of the Hong Kong
Government were and might be resulted in complete
identity of view. This was a useful and necessary
double exercise.
5.
Of course all that must be done to
overcome the deficiencies of the past cannot be
achieved in a day, and while Hong Kong is still in
the process of catching up there are bound to be
grounds for criticism.
But so long as the Hong Kong
Government is able to keep to its timetable of
planned improvements and reform
and these have been
very carefully mapped out there will be reasonable
answers to reasonable criticisms.
The sense of the
answers can be that by the early '80s the following
will have been achieved:
a) there will be self-contained homes in a
b)
reasonable environment at heavily sub-
sidised rents for all that need them
(about 65% of the population):
in labour and social legislation Hong Kong
will be broadly comparable with the best in
equivalent Asian countries (and incidentally
far in advance of them in compliance with
ILO conventions):
c) there will be free primary education,
heavily subsidised or free secondary education