Parks and playgrounds, 234-7, 288
Patents, 67-8
Peak Tramways, 202, 277
Pearl culture, 81
Peking, 270, 274
Peking, Convention of, 274
Personal assessment, 41
Pest control, 123
Pig-raising, 76-7
Productivity Centre, 51
Productivity Council, 5, 51 Profits Tax, 41-2
Progress, 1-20
369
Property Tax, 41-2
Protestant churches, 229-30
Peninsula Electric Power Co Ltd, 184 Provision Council for the Use and
Pilotage, 189
Pirates, 268
Plague, 277
Plants, 263-7
Plastics, 21-2, 25, 53-4
Playgrounds, 8, 179, 180, 234–7, 281 Plover Cove Scheme, 8, 17, 38, 174–5,
280, between pages x-1 Poisonous plants, 266
Police, 2, 159–63, 168, 179, 204,
between pages 168–9
anti-illegal immigration, 169 Auxiliaries, 159, 163 CID, 160
manpower and training, 162-3 Public Information Bureau, 17,
18, 158
Traffic Branch, 161-2 Uniformed Branch, 162 women, 162
Poliomyelitis, 104, 111
Pond fish production, 72, 82-3
Population, 256–9, 273-4, 275, 278,
279
New Territories, 256–8 non-Chinese aliens, 256 urban, 256
Port, 5-6, 188-94, frontispiece
Control Office, 189
Executive Committee, 188 health, 112-3, 189
Welfare Committee, 192 works, 181-3, 191
Postal Services, 205–7, 281, between
pages 240-1, 351
Post-secondary education, 92-6 Pottinger, Sir Henry, 272
Poultry, 17, 71, 76, 77–8
Presbyterian Church, 229 Press, 1, 18, 209–10, 216, 218
Chinese Language Press Institute,
210
Preventive Service, 66, 167-8 Primary production, 71–86 Prisons, 116, 163-5, 179, between
pages 168-9
Private building, 4, 134-6 Privy Council, 286
Probation, 149, 155–6
Conservation of the Countryside, 239
Public-
assistance, 154–5
assets, 36-40
debt, 39-40, 310
health administration, 105–6
order, 158-68
roads, 197-9
Service, 29, 286, 290–2 Services Commission, 291 transport, 200-3, 351 utilities, 184-7 works, 8, 38
Works Department, 174-84 Public Enquiry Service, 17, 218–9 Publicity, local and overseas, 59,
216-8
Quarantine, 112–3, 189 Quarrying, 21
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Queen Elizabeth Hospital, 116, 117,
119, 120, 280
Queen Mary Hospital, 13, 104, 116,
117-8, 119, 120, 180, 276
Rabies, 78
Radio, Commercial, 211-2, 219 Radio Hong Kong, 17, 179, 210–2,
219
Radio news, 209, 211, 216
Radioactivity, measurements, 251 Radiotherapy, 117
Railway, 195-6, 231, 351
! Rainfall, 15, 248, 252–3, 353
Rates, 41
Rating and Valuation Commissioner, 41 Reclamations, 56, 181-4, 189, 276, 277 Recreation, 234 45
Red Cross, 117, 154
Rediffusion (Hong Kong) Ltd, 212-3 Refugees, 49, 170, 278 Refuse collections, 122, 182
Registrar of Co-operative Societies, 85 Registrar General, 68, 258, 276 Registrar of Trade Unions, 32–3 Registration, companies, 68-9 Rehabilitation, 14, 115, 153-4,
between pages 168-9 Rehabilitation Loan, 39 Religion and Custom, 226–33 Rent control, 145-6
Rescue service, 224