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VEDNESDAY, APRIL 10, 1974
NEW TREASURY SUB-OFFICE FOR KOULOON CITY SOON
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A NEW SUB-TREASURY SERVING RESIDENTS IN KOWLOON CITY WILL BE OPEN FOR BUSINESS IN TWO TO THREE MONTHS' TIME, THE FINANCIAL SECRETARY, THE HON. PHILIP HADDON-CAVE TOLD THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY.
AS A RESULT OF SURVEYS UNDERTAKEN BY THE CENSUS AND STATISTICS DEPARTMENT, HE SAID, IT WAS FOUND THAT ONLY IN KOWLOON CITY WAS THE DEHAND SUFFICIENT TO JUSTIFY THE EXPENSE INVOLVED IN ESTABLISHING A COLLECTION AND PAYMENT OFFICE.
REPLYING TO A QUESTIUM BY THE HON. LI FOOK-VO, MR. HADDON- CAVE POINTED OUT THAT TREASURY REVENUE COLLECTION OFFICES WERE NORMALLY UNLY CONGESTED IN THE MONTHS WHEN QUARTERLY RATE PAYMENTS FELL DUE.
THE ACCOUNTANT GENERAL, MR. HADDON-CAVE WENT ON, HAS TAKEN STEPS TO ENCOURAGE PEOPLE TO PAY GOVERNIEUT ACCOUNTS BY POST AND ABOUT 000,000 ACCOUNTS COR 25 PER CENT) OUT OF A TOTAL OF 3,200,000 PAID AT TREASURY OFFICES EACH YEAR ARE NOW SETTLED IN +THIS CONVENIENT AND TIME SAVING FASHION.+
THE FINANCIAL SECRETARY RECALLED THAT WHEN THE POSTAL PAYMENT CAMPAIGN BEGAN Iil 1960, LESS THAN 40,000 ACCOUNTS A YEAR OR ABOUT TUO PER CENT, WERE PAID THROUGH THE POST. +THIS CAMPAIGN HAS, THEREFORE, BEEN A CONSIDERABLE SUCCESS, + HE REMARKED.
HE HOPED THAT WITH THE SUCCESS OF THE CAMPAIGN,
COUPLED WITH THE NEW FACILITIES THE NEW SUB-TREASURY IN KOWLOON CITY WILL PROVIDE, CONGESTION AT TREASURY CASH OFFICES WOULD BE REDUCED.
MONETHELESS, THE FINANCIAL SECRETARY FELT THAT IT WAS UNLIKELY THAT CONGESTION WOULD BE ELIMINATED COMPLETELY FOR +SU MANY PEOPLE LEAVE THE PAYMENT OF ACCOUNTS TO THE LAST MOMENT. +
FINANCIAL AID TO BAPTIST COLLEGE
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THE DIRECTOR OF EDUCATION, THE HON. JOHN CANNING TODAY TOLD THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL THAT THE APPLICATION OF THE BAPTIST COLLEGE FOR FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE HAS BEEN UNDER DETAILED CONSIDERATION AND THE MATTER WOULD SHORTLY BE BROUGHT BEFORE THE COUNCIL.
MR. CANNING ALSO ASSURED DR. THE HON. S.Y. CHUNG, WHO RAISED THE QUESTION IN COUNCIL, THAT HE WOULD BE IN TOUCH WITH THE PRESI- DENT OF THE BAPTIST COLLEGE AS SOON AS A DECISION HAS MADE ON THE APPLICATION.