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Thursday, March 16, 1972
"But what perturbs me is on the one hand the complaint by rural committees
that medical facilities in the New Territories are inadequate, and on the other
hand, the fact that the facilities provided are not fully used."
"Are the right facilities provided? Is the policy of Government to
have one clinic for every 100,000 of population the correct one to apply to
rural areas?" he asked.
He suggested that the Director of Medical and Health Services might
find it profitable to sit down with representatives of New Territories rural
committees to discuss their needs, and that Government gave sympathetic
consideration to them.
Shortage
There was a shortage of secondary schools all over Hong Kong but they
were more deficient in the New Territories than in the urban areas, he said.
"I think in this connection it would be right to encourage rural
committees to get into contact with existing grant in aid institutions, who
already ran successful schools in the urban areas, to see if their expertise
could be available to the rural areas.
This would fit in with Government's policy of encouraging the establishment
of secondary schools by private institutions by providing land, grants and loana,
he added.
On the potential of the New Territories in housing and industry, Mr.
Cheung, citing Sha Tin, said that the development of that area "ought to be a
Town Planners dream" for there he starts practically from scratch.
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