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DAILY INFORMATION BULLETIN-SUPPLEMENT
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ISSUED BY GOVERNMENT INFORMATION SERVICES BEACONSFIELD HOUSE, HONG KONG TEL: 5-233191
S BY HE HE ACTING GOVERNOR SIR JACK CATER KBE JP AT THE
ING CEREMONY OF THE SIXTH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM OF THE
ATIONAL FEDERATION OF SOCIAL WORKERS AT THE MARYKNOLL NT SCHOOL ON 13TH JULY 1980
Madam Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen,
I have much pleasure in extending a warm welcome to
all participants in this Symposium, and in particular to
cur visitors from overseas.
Some of you may be visiting Hong Kong for the first
time: in spite of our size
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perhaps miniscule in comparison
to your own countries we are not exactly unknown or without
repute. We occasionally hit the World's headlines as we
did last year with the dramatic but tragic arrival of the Vietnamese
boat refugees: but it is our trade and our industry that
has made Hong Kong known throughout much of the World.
And there can be no denying the economic success of Hong
Kong due I should add not only to the good sense, drive and
flexibility of our business community, but largely because
we have a hard-working, versatile work-force. But economic
growth without social progress would produce a situation
where the great majority of the people remain in poverty,
while a privileged few reap the benefits of rising abundance.
And Hong Kong has not stood still in this vital section of
social progress, and I am sure that in your discussions, you
will learn a great deal about our very substantial expansion
of services to the public such as housing, education, medical
and health services and, of course, social welfare.
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