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46.
I am afraid we
sometimes take for granted our
achievements in such fields as housing, education and
health and it takes visitors to remind us that по
territory in the world has tackled, what one of my eminent
predecessors called, "the problem of people", with such
determination, imagination and success.
Just look around
the
imaginative
and
territory. We have over the past twenty years
embarked on one of the world's most
successful new town building programmes. We have moved
two million people into modern communities complete with
schools, hospitals, clinics and comprehensive welfare,
cultural and recreational facilities. In addition and at
the same time we have built two new rapid transit systems,
a second tunnel under the harbour and several others under
mountains. All these within budget and ahead of
schedule. In education, we have achieved free education
In the field of health we have eradicated
our
for nine years.
previously
endemic
diseases. We have reduced infant
mortality rates to below the levels of everywhere apart
from Japan and Scandinavia, and our people live longer on
average than
either the United Kingdom or
United States.
the
in those
And all this
with
no foreign aid
while keeping public
expenditure below
20% of
GDP.
Nothing
'Lame
duckish'
programmes to help us and
about that record of achievement I think.
47.
As to the future it
future it would indeed have been much
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