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Wednesday, February 14, 1973
"It is necessary to reconcile a suitably widely-based membership
with the need to keep the Authority's size down to manageable proportions, in
the interests of speed and efficiency," he added.
WIDE PUBLICITY FOR DISABILITY AND INFIRMITY ALLOWANCE SCHEME
All publicity measures will be used to bring home to those in need
the message that the Government's new severe disability and infirmity allowance
scheme is to be operative from April 1 this year.
The Hon. F.K. Li, Director of Social Welfare, gave the Legislative
Council this assurance today in reply to the Hon. Mrs. Mary Wong Wing-cheung,
who had asked if the Government would publish a pamphlet in the two languages
describing the conditions of eligibility in detail.
Mr. Li said publicity measures being contemplated included the press,
radio, television, and possibly cinema advertising, all taken to ensure that
the scope of the scheme became known to those who might benefit from it.
In addition, the Social Welfare Department was arranging for 30,000
copies of a Chinese leaflet to be printed - with the first consignment expected
to be ready in two weeks.
The English leaflet, intended mostly for those working in the social
welfare field, would be textually longer, and so would not be ready until later
in March. Two thousand copies would be printed initially.
"As with similar leaflets on the public assistance scheme," Mr. Li said,
"they will be distributed widely through all Government departments which have
frequent dealings with the public, and through the volunteer social welfare
agencies."
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