Wednesday, October 16, 1974
The Consumer Council
Before leaving this subject of community relations
First of
I wish to mention briefly the Consumer Council. all much of its membership was quite new to the working of public advisory bodies but was representative of sections of the community on which the rise in prices was pressing.
犀 particularly hard. Secondly it successfully achieved its:. purpose of reassuring the public that where prices were high- because of unreasonable manipulation or mark up in Hong Kong
Thirdly it itself, something could be done about it. achieved its significant and continuing influence through the
quick and impartial
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investigation of facts on the one hand,
and the use of persuasion and public opinion on the other. Surely we should proceed in this quick and informal way whenever we appropriately can, rather than always rely on the panoply and procedures of legislation, Police investigation and the law courts. It is so much better to persuade than to punish. I would like to record my gratitude to Sir Yuet-keung Kan for his able and imaginative chairmanship of the Consumer Council.
PRISONS
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Increased crime, more vigorous measures to combat it, more prosecutions and the longer sentences being imposed, have produced a marked increase in the prison population. The total number of inmates in all types of institutions on 30th September 1974 was about 7,600 as compared with 6,400.
on 30th September 1973.
In Stanley Frison....