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SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1985
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+HONG KONG HAS A PROBLEM OF AN AGEING POPULATION. ARE MORE AND MORE OLD PEOPLE IN OUR POPULATION EVERY YEAR.
+WE HAVE TO ADDRESS OUR MINDS TO THAT PROBLEM, HOW WE LOOK AT THE PROBLEM OF AN AGEING POPULATION MORE AND MORE OLD PEOPLE, FEWER AND FEWER YOUNG PEOPLE ACTUALLY THINK
I WE SHOULD HAVE AN OPEN MIND ABOUT IT.
+CENTRAL PROVIDENT FUNDS ARE NOT THE ANSWER TO EVERYTHING, AS YOU CAN SEE IF YOU SEE WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO CENTRAL PROVIDENT FUNDS IN OTHER COUNTRIES.
+ BUT THERE MAY BE OTHER WAYS OF DEALING WITH THIS QUESTION, AND WE MUST EXAMINE ALL WAYS,+ HE SAID.
SIR DAVID POINTED OUT THAT IT WAS A QUESTION OF SEEING HOW MUCH INTEREST THERE WAS IN THE COMMUNITY IN SOLVING THIS PROBLEM.
+ IF SUFFICIENT INTEREST IS SHOWN BY THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCILLORS, OF COURSE THE GOVERNMENT WILL HAVE TO CONSIDER WHAT THEY HAVE GOT TO SAY ABOUT IT.
+THIS ISN'T A NEW THING. IT HAS BEEN RAISED MANY TIMES IN THE PAST BY SOME OF OUR MOST EMINENT MEMBERS OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL, HE SAID.
ASKED FOR THE GOVERNMENT'S REACTION TO THE REQUESTS FOR PAY RISE BY MAGISTRATES AND CIVIL SERVANTS, SIR DAVID SAID, ANYTHING THAT COMES FROM THE CIVIL SERVANTS ASSOCIATIONS AND UNIONS WILL BE VERY CAREFULLY EXAMINED BEFORE ANY DECISION IS MADE.+
BUSY OUTDOOR SUNDAY FOR CHIEF SECRETARY
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THE CHIEF SECRETARY, SIR DAVID AKERS-JONES, HAD A BUSY SUNDAY OF OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES TODAY, STARTING WITH A MORNING WALK FOR MILLIONS, AND ENDING WITH A LATE AFTERNOON JOURNEY, PARTLY BY HELICOPTER, TO MEET PLAYERS IN THE HONG KONG-JAPAN QUALIFYING WORLD CUP SOCCER MATCH.
ARRIVING AT 8.40 AM AT MA LIU SHUI PIER FOR THE RIBBON- CUTTING CEREMONY, SIR DAVID MET THE CHAIRMAN OF THE COMMUNITY CHEST CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE, MR ROBIN CHAN, THE CHAIRMAN OF THE WALK FOR MILLIONS, DR RONALD LEUNG, AND THE SECRETARY FOR LANDS AND WORKS, MR NICKY CHAN, AND LATER JOINED THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE TAKING PART IN THE COMMUNITY CHEST WALK FOR MILLIONS ALONG THE TOLO HIGHWAY.
/THE WALKERS