4000091 P.R.H. 7
HONG KONG GOVERNMENT
NFORMATION SERVICES
DAILY INFORMATION BULLETIN
Wednesday, March 15, 1972
GOVERNMENT HAS FAILED TO ACHIEVED ITS INTENTIONS:
HON. SIR Y.K. KAN
Senior Unofficial Member Criticises "Conservatism and
Pessimism" in Legislative Council's Budget Debate
The Hong Kong Government has failed to achieve all that it should have
achieved, the Senior Unofficial Member of the Legislative Council, the Hon.
Sir Yuet-keung Kan, said today.
Speaking in the resumed debate on the Budget, Sir Yuet-keung said
although Government's intentions were "unexceptionable", unfortunately the way
in which it had set about putting these into effect was open to criticism.
"There have been several reasons for this," Sir Yuet-keung said,
There had been a serious deficiency in forward planning and Government
activity in general had been, to a large extent, "moulded and restricted by a
financial policy" which, in his opinion, had erred on the side of "conservatism
and pessimism,"
Sir Yuet-keung said, although he would hesitate to suggest that Government
had not all along felt confidence in the ability of the people of Hong Kong to
achieve what they had so notably succeeded in achieving in the past two decades,
"this confidence has not made itself manifest in Government policy,"
"Indeed, ...