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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1984
+FISCAL MEASURES, BLUNT AS THEY ARE, DO NOT PERMIT THE
THE SOCIAL COST IS HIGH, AND IN OUR NECESSARY SELECTIVE APPROACH. CROWDED, PRESSURED SOCIETY, WE HAVE TO BE MOST CAREFUL ABOUT MEASURES WHICH MAY GENERATE JUSTIFIED ANTIPATHY AND DISCONTENT,+
SAID.
THE ALTERNATIVE TO CONTINUALLY INCREASING TAXES ON CAR OWNERSHIP WAS A PRICING SYSTEM WHICH COULD BE APPLIED AT BUSY TIMES IN HEAVILY TRAFFICKED AREAS, BUT WHICH ALSO LEFT PEOPLE
E TO USE THEIR CARS WHEN THE ROAD SYSTEM WAS NOT UNDER PRESSURE, HE SAID.
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+SOME DRIVERS WILL BY CHOICE CONTINUE TO DRIVE IN CONGESTED AREAS AT PEAK PERIODS AND TO PAY THE PRICE. OTHERS
ILL CHOOSE NOT TO. THEREFORE SOME DRIVERS WILL PAY MORE BY WAY OF ERP CHARGES THAN THEY DO NOW BY WAY OF LICENCE FEES, AND OTHERS WILL PAY LESS.
+BUT IT WILL BE A CHOICE FOR EACH OF THEM TO DETERMINE EXACTLY HOW MUCH ERP CHARGES HE WISHES TO INCUR, MR SCOTT 3412.
PEOPLE NOW EAGER TO DONATE BLOOD, GOVERNOR SAYS
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HONG KONG PEOPLE WERE NOW WILLING AND EAGER TO DONATE BLOOD, THE GOVERNOR, SIR EDWARD YOUDE, SAID TODAY.
THIS HAD RESULTED FROM MANY YEARS OF UNREMITTING EFFORT IN OVERCOMING PUBLIC RESISTANCE TO VOLUNTARY BLOOD DONATIONS, HE SAID.
THE GOVERNOR WAS SPEAKING AT THE OPENING OF THE HONG KONG RED CROSS BLOOD TRANSFUSION SERVICE BRADBURY CENTRE THIS AFTERNOON.
THE DIFFICULTIES OF PERSUADING PEOPLE TO DONATE BLOOD HAD BEEN RECOGNISED SINCE 1952, +WHEN A GROUP OF ENTHUSIASTIC VOLUNTEERS SET UP HONG KONG'S FIRST BLOOD COLLECTION POINT IN A HUT IN STATUE SQUARE.+
SIR EDWARD SAID THAT THIS +REMARKABLE CHANGE IN PUBLIC ATTITUDE+ HAD BEEN LARGELY DUE TO THE UNCEASING EFFORTS OVER THE YEARS IN EDUCATION, PUBLICITY AND PERSUASION ON THE PART OF THE HIGHLY MOTIVATED STAFF OF THE RED CROSS.
+THEY DESERVE OUR CONGRATULATIONS,+ HE SAID,
SPECIAL MENTION, HE SAID, SHOULD ALSO BE MADE OF THE MANY CVIC-MINDED COMMUNITY LEADERS AND CITIZENS WHO, THROUGH THEIR ACTIVE INVOLVEMENT IN THE BLOOD DONOR CAMPAIGN, HAD HELPED BRING
BOUT THIS +QUIET REVOLUTION.+
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