4004035
P.R. 31
HONG KONG GOVERNMENT
NFORMATION SERVICES
DAILY INFORMATION BULLETIN
SUPPLEMENT
Monday, May 8, 1972
OPENING OF VOCATIONAL TRAINING EXHIBITION
Speech by H.E. Governor
The following is the full text of a speech given by His Excellency
the Governor, Sir Murray MacLehose, at the opening of the Vocational Training
Exhibition at the Kei Heep Secondary Modern School, Wong Tai Sin, today
(Monday, May 8):
"Ladies and Gentlemen,
We have heard from Mrs. Wong of the progress made since the first
exhibition three years ago.
"In these years Hong Kong's industrial activities have diversified
and fresh demands for trained personnel and fresh opportunities for those
with the necessary training have been created.
"I wonder how many parents have registered this new development.
I wonder how many still plan the education of their children as if our community
and its economic needs and opportunities had remained unchanged over the
past 50 years.
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"The facts are that one-quarter of a million students are in grammar
schools and only about 10,000 in technical and vocational programmes.
am sure that all of us here are in agreement that this imbalance must be
corrected.
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