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To prepare for the consideration of Government a plan covering all the objects of development and welfare expenditure in this Colony during the next ten years. The preparation of this plan is to be carried out in accord- ance with the instructions of the Secretary of State for the Colonies as conveyed in his circular despatch of 12th November, 1945, on the subject of the Colonial Development and Welfare Act."
The despatch referred to is the one from which extracts have been quoted above.
Several sub-committees of the Development Committee have been set up to advise on particular aspects of the ten year plan and certain gentle- men who are not members of the main Committee have been co-opted as members of these sub-committees. The sub-committees are as follows:
HOUSING AND TOWN PLANNING SUB-COMMITTEE
The Director of Public Works (Chairman)
Wing Car. S. E. Faber, A.F.C.
Mr. Lawrence Kadoorie
Mr. H. J. Tebbut
Mr. B. Wong Tape
Deputy Director of Health Services
PORT DEVELOPMENT SUB-COMMITTEE
Mr. C. J. Colman (Chairman)
Hon. Mr. C. C. Roberts
Mr. R. Y. Frost
Mr. J. Jolly, C.B.E. (Harbour Master Mr. A. Nicol
PUBLIC HEALTH SUB-COMMITTEE
The Director of Medical Services (Chairman)
Hon. Dr. S. N. Chau
Mr. I. N. Chau
Wing Cdr. S. E. Faber, A.F.C.
Deputy Director of Health Services
Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Hong Kong University.
(Not yet arrived in the Colony).
Mr. R. S. W. Paterson, 0.B.E.
Dr. A. M. Rodrigues
NATURAL RESOURCES SUB-COMMITTEE
Dr. G. A. C. Herklots (Chairman)
Hon. Mr. R. D. Gillespie
Mr. E. Himsworth
Father T. F. Ryan, S.J.
Mr. K. Keen (District Officer, New Territories)
Mr. Young Tsun Dart
WELFARE SUB-COMMITTEE
Hon. Mr. T. M. Hazlerigg, C.B.E., M.C. (Chairman Hon. Mr. A. Morse, C.B.E. (Deputy Chairman)
The Secretary for Chinese Affairs
Hon. Dr. S. N. Chau
The Director of Medical Services, or his Deputy
An Education Sub-Committee is shortly to be set up under the chairmanship of the Director of Education.