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香港總督府
Subject
SIR M MACLEHOSE'S
VALEDICTORY DESPATCH
Summary
GOVERNMENT HOUSE
HONG KONG
Mien 014/2
HICH
Par 2011-
See
Paragraph
Part I : Preparation for Settlement of the Future
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10-and-a-half years' governorship dominated by need
to get the Colony in the best possible shape domestically, internationally, and vis-a-vis China for negotiations about the future by the early or mid 80's.
The need for urgent policies that would add to the
existing prosperity, an adequate measure of domestic contentment and international respectability.
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2,3.
4 - 7.
Progressive announcement of programmes covering
housing, education, medical and welfare services, social security, reform of labour legislation, the construction of new towns and new transport systems, and provision for leisure activities. Expansion and broadening of unofficial membership of Legislative and Executive Councils, and development of participation in administration at local level culminating in establishment of District Boards with electoral element. These were sufficient to hold the
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