6.
for an improved environment and better development
of new and more sophisticated industries. To
make this possible, an ambitious expansion of road
and rail links is under construction or planned.
These things are not mere gleams in
7.
a planner's eye. They represent the rounding
off of a long process of social administration
which has gradually lifted Hong Kong from the
misery of the '50s to its present situation, and
which should achieve normalcy by the early '80s.
With prudent husbandry of the Colony's resources,
and external catastrophe in world trade excepted,
I am satisfied the finance for these considerable
developments can be found.
8.
This year of renewed prosperity and
confidence, and of recapitulation and rethinking of
Government policies and programmes, included some
developments of importance:
a)
membership of the Legislative Council
was substantially expanded to provide
articulate voices to speak for the
workers and underprivileged - a role
hitherto largely (though not exclusively)
played by official members. As a
leader writer put it after a particularly
lively debate in which the liberals
had the best of it: "the industrial
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