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Wednesday, March 14, 1973
He urged the Government to reflect carefully on the need to
prevent further exorbitant increases and advocated "a measure of control"
to stop rises of unjustified proportions.
In his opinion, the key to a solution to this particular problem
was to speed up land sales.
Turning to transport, Mr. Woo called for a complete reorganisation
of the Transport Department along the lines of a high-powered Transport
Authority.
He suggested that the Authority should be headed by a very senior
officer who should be appointed at the highest level in Government not only
to coordinate "but to initiate, direct and enforce the massive effort which
has to be made in this sphere of Government activity."
Transport Problems
"So far as the improvement of our increasingly chaotic traffic
and transport problems are concerned," he said, "it is not only a question
of staff but also of vastly improving the present organisation within Government
for dealing with these matters."
He added: "The Transport Department is quite inadequate as a
control instrument due both to lack of adequate top class managerial staff
and also due to lack of powers. **
"It can devise but has no authority to enforce measures of control
which will be effective."
Mr. Woo singled out several other areas in which "grossly inadequate
staff were provided to undertake unfinished tasks and called for a very
special effort to fill the gaps.
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