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Tuesday, April 10, 1973
"Secondly, housing: a vastly expanded programme based on a new
concept and directed by a new unified authority with a single Government
department working to it.
Thirdly, the phased expansion of the social services so as progressively
to provide a system of social security, underpinned by a specially trained
cadre of professional social workers.
"Fourthly, the reconstituted Medical Development Advisory
Board will report by the end of July on plans for further development in the
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.
Problems
"There are of course many other problems to be tackled. There are crime
and corruption to be mastered:, there is the problem of narcotics, the most
intracțible and baffling problem of all. There is the problem of our traffic and
our motor cars, the need for off-street parking, the need (within the Council's
own responsibilities) for proper markets for people who are now called hawkers,
and the need to co-ordinate the solution of these interconnected problems.
"Above all there is the need to maintain the expansion of the prosperity
of this city on which all else depends.
"Our plans for advance in the major fields I mention are already laid
or in preparation. If this effort is accompanied by decisive advances in the
field within the responsibilities of the Urban Council, and I know how determined
you are to achieve this, I think that once our plans mature, and inexorably this
will take time, we should find ourselves on the edge of really significant new
developments.
/Broadly