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Tuesday, April 10, 1973
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He said: "I like the verve and vitality of the Council and
its members, and I am sure you are now going to make things hum in your sector.í
Turning to the administration, the Governor revealed that plans
were already in hand or being prepared for social advances on a broad front.
These included:
Education, particularly the provision of universal secondary education and the overhaul of the examination system
which this will permit, and a considerable expansion of
technical education.
A vastly expanded housing programme based on a new concept and directed by a new unified authority with a single
Government department working to it.
A phased expansion of the social services so as to
progressively provide a system of social security
underpinned by a specially trained cadre of professional
social workers.
In addition, the reconstituted Medical Development Advisory Board
would report by the end of July on plans for further development in the
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next 10 years, including the enormous programme necessary to provide facilities
for the new towns and New Territories and to consolidate and improve what
has already been achieved in the urban areas.
Once these plans mature, and if they were accompanied by decisive
advances within responsibilities of the Urban Council, the Governor said,
"we should find ourselves on the edge of really significant new developments."
/Broadly