WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 20, 1988
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EXPERT MEETING ON LOCALISATION OF CIVIL AVIATION LEGISLATION
AN EXPERT MEETING WILL BE HELD IN PEKING BETWEEN THE CHINESK
23 AND BRITISH SIDES ON JANUARY 22 AND
TO DISCUSS DETAILS OF THE LOCALISATION OF CIVIL AVIATION LEGISLATION.
THE BRITISH TEAM, LED BY MR DAVID LITTLE, PRINCIPAL CROWN FOR THE COUNSEL (SPECIAL DUTIES) OF THE LEGAL DEPARTMENT, WILL LEAVE CHINESR CAPITAL TOMORROW (THURSDAY).
THE EXPERT MEETING FOLLOWS AN AGREEMENT AT THE EIGHTH MEETING OF THE JOINT LIAISON GROUP IN NOVEMBER 1987 THAT DETAILS OF THE
OF LEGISLATION LOCALISATION
WOULD BE DISCUSSED AT EXPERT LEVEL
BETWEEN THE TWO SIDES.
COMPREHENSIVE ELDERLY POLICY NEEDED
MEMBER OF THE
HIN-KWONG, TODAY (WEDNESDAY)
EXECUTIVE AND LEGISLATIVE COUNCILS, DR CHIU URGED THE GOVERNMENT TO FORMULATE A COMPREHENSIVE AND LONG-TERM POLICY ON ELDERLY SERVICE.
THE DR CHIU MADE THE APPEAL WHEN HE OPENED
"SEMINAR ON THE ELDERLY" JOINTLY ORGANISED BY THE HONG KONG SOCIETY FOR THE AGED AND THE SOCIAL WELFARE DEPARTMENT AT THE DUKE OF WINDSOR SOCIAL SERVICE BUILDING THIS MORNING.
"THE CALL, IS MADE IN THE HOPE THAT THE AUTHORITIES CONCERNED WILL FACE UP TO THE PROBLEM OF ELDERLY IN HONG KONG AND TO CONSOLIDATE OUR EXISTING FRAGMENTED AND PIECE-MEAL SERVICE PROVISIONS
AND SYSTEMATIC AND PLANNING SO THAT A COMPREHENSIVE
PROGRAMME PLAN CAN BR WORKED OUT," HE SAID.
MADE
SOME WERE MORE OR RESIDENTIAL NURSING, MEDICAL CARE.
LIMITED OUTREACHING
DR
ELDERLY CHIU CONCEDED THAT
SERVICE HAD DEVELOPMENT IN THE PAST DECADE AND THE NECESSARY AREAS LESS COVERED, SUCH AS SOCIAL SECURITY, OLD AGE ALLOWANCE,
HELP, COMMUNITY CARE, SOCIAL CENTRES, HOME GERIATRIC BEDS, MEALS, LAUNDRY SERVICE AND SERVICE.
EVEN
"REGRETTABLY DUE TO THE CONSTRAINT OF RESOURCES,
RATHER ON QUANTITY
OF ELDERLY SERVICE IS STILL SAID.
THE
THAN
THE EMPHASIS QUALITY,
"
HE
MIGHT ELDERLY
NOT
LACK
THEIR MENTAL ELDERLY
FURTHERMORE, HE SAID THAT WHILE MATERIALISTIC SUPPORT, VERY LITTLE HAD BEEN DONE ABOUT WELL-BEING, FOR WHICH HE FELT THAT THE SOCIAL CENTRES FOR THE HAD BEEN PROVIDING ONLY LIMITED HELP.
/HE REGRETTED