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MONDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1994
ON ALLOCATION
RESULT
A
OF PUBLIC HOUSING
TIME FOR PUBLIC
AS HOUSING. COMMITTING OURSELVES TO AN INCREASE IN THE NUMBER OF OVER THE FIVE, SIX YEARS WE SHOULD BE ABLE TO REDUCE THE WAITING LIST.
A THE WAITING LIST ISN'T OF COURSE ENTIRELY ACCURATE BECAUSE THERE'S CERTAIN AMOUNT OF OVERLAPPING AND DOUBLE-COUNTING ON THE WAITING LIST,
ELIGIBILITY AND BECAUSE SOME PEOPLE ON THE WAITING LIST ARE ABOVE THE
IN PUBLIC AND I HOPE THAT THE INCREASE CRITERIA BUT, NEVERTHELESS, HOUSING THAT WE ARE COMMITTED TO PROVIDING WILL REDUCE THE NUMBER OF IF PEOPLE ON THE WAITING LIST. IT WOULD REDUCE, OF COURSE, EVEN MORE THE 10 PER CENT OF PEOPLE IN HOUSING AUTHORITY ACCOMMODATION WHO
HOME OWNERSHIP INCOMES DOUBLE THE ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA MOVED ON TO SCHEMES AND WE MUST ENCOURAGE AS MANY AS POSSIBLE TO DO THAT,
-
HAVE
OF OUR AND
I HOPE YOU
INDEED I THINK YOU DID WILL APPROVE DETERMINATION TO LEGISLATE AGAINST DISCRIMINATION ON THE DISABLED
HASN'T LEGISLATION THE
THAT YOU MADE ABOUT THE MENTAL HEALTH POINT
AND IF YOU LEAVE BEEN MADE TO ME BEFORE, BUT I WILL FOLLOW IT UP.
ABOUT THAT YOUR NAME WITH ONE OF THE STEWARDS I WILL RESPOND TO YOU PARTICULAR ISSUE.
GOOD EVENING, MR GOVERNOR.
QUESTION:
I WISH TO THANK YOU
GENTLEMAN MADE A PROMISE THAT YOU WILL BE GIVING A REPLY TO THE
THE PIECE OF LAND FOR A PRIMARY SCHOOL IN LAM TIN MENTIONED LOOK FORWARD TO THAT.
YOU
WHO
AND WE
HONG
IN
NOW, I WOULD LIKE TO TELL YOU THIS: THE GRASSROOTS PEOPLE KONG HOPE THAT YOU WILL SPEND MORE TIME ON BREAD AND BUTTER ISSUES. THIS IS MY FIRST INVITATION TO YOU. I HOPE THAT YOU CAN COME TO LAM TIN ONCE AGAIN. MY INVITATION IS VERY SINCERE. THANK YOU.
GOVERNOR:
WELL, THESE PUBLIC MEETINGS WOULDN'T BE COMPLETE UNLESS KONG GOT AN OFFER, WHICH I CAN'T REFUSE, TO VISIT ONE PART OF HONG OR ANOTHER. AT LEAST ONE AFTERNOON A WEEK I GO OUT AND VISIT DISTRICT
VISIT BOARDS OR
OTHER COMMUNITY FACILITIES
WILL AND I RESPOND TO YOUR INVITATION TO COME AND VISIT YOU AND I HOPE PROVIDE A CUP OF TEA.
WE'LL BE IN TOUCH WITH YOU.
THE JACKPOT!
ALRIGHT?
CERTAINLY YOU'LL
YOU
WON
QUESTION:
I
I HAVE GREAT RESPECT FOR YOU AS OUR YOU DELIVERED YOUR POLICY ADDRESS, SOME CRITICISED THAT AS
ADDRESS BUT
GOVERNOR.
AFTER
AN
EMPTY
IMPOSSIBLE
FOR
CHINESE SIDE.
EXAGGERATION.
CRITICISED
IT CAN UNDERSTAND YOUR POSITION BECAUSE YOU TO DECIDE ON ISSUES AFTER 1997 ON BEHALF SO IF YOU PAINT TOO ROSY A
IT PICTURE, BUT IF YOU PAINT A GRIM PICTURE, THEN YOU BY THE CHINESE SIDE. SO YOU'RE IN A VERY DIFFICULT
IS
SIMPLY
OF THE
MAY BE
MAY
BE
POSITION.
WITH
IT'S
RATHER
то
ΤΟ REGARD
YOUR POLICY ADDRESS, I THINK PRACTICAL AND PRAGMATIC. YOU HAVE NOT EXAGGERATED WHAT TASKS NEED
AND SO DONE AFTER 1997 FOR CONSTRUCTION OF HOMES FOR THE ELDERLY
YOU HAVE PUT FORWARD A NUMBER OF PRACTICAL PROPOSALS BUT IT SEEMS MASS TRANSIT IN YOUR POLICY ADDRESSES YOU HAVE NEVER MENTIONED
IN
WHEN
BE ON. THAT
HONG SYSTEMS.
THE EIGHTIES, WHEN THE MTR CAME INTO PLACE,
THE TIME KONG WAS DEVELOPING A MASS TRANSIT SYSTEM, THAT WAS ABOUT WHEN THE PROGRESS STOPPED. IT IS ONLY RECENTLY THERE IS MENTION THE AIRPORT
BUT FOR OTHER MASS TRANSIT SYSTEMS IN
SOUTHERN
MA DISTRICT,
ON SHAN, TSEUNG KWAN 0, OR IN THE IT SEEMS THAT ALL SUCH DEVELOPMENTS HAVE STOPPED. HOPE WHEN YOU CONSIDER MASS TRANSIT SYSTEMS, YOU WOULD PUT FORWARD MORE PROPOSALS BECAUSE HONG KONG IS RAPIDLY EXPANDING AND DEVELOPING.
TERRITORIES,
RAILWAY,
OF
THE
NEW
30 I
/GOVERNOR
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