improved sickness benefits and severance payments. It is
recognised that if the problem of the illegal employment of
children is to be dealt with satisfactorily there must be an
improvement in educational facilities. The Hong Kong Government
plan to meet this need by an expanded education programme which
is designed to raise the school leaving age for all to 15 by 1980.
The Government welcomed the Hong Kong Government's plans
for the improvement of conditions of employment and better
educational opportunities and will do everything possible to help
the Hong Kong Government meet its objectives. There are no
grounds for complacency but the Hong Kong Government is taking
steps to deal with the problem of illegal child labour and other
social problems in Hong Kong. A ban on their products would
not, in my view, be justified.
(DAVID OWEN)