1963-HKRS32-8-70_Part02 — Page 1

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LGISIATIVE

COUNCIL

Meeting to be held on sdnesday, 20th May, 1964, at 2.30 p.m.

ORDER OF BUSINESS

CONFIRMATION OF MINUTES OF MEETING HAND OF 6TH MAY, 1964-

PAFERS TO BE LAID.

CUSTIQ!S.

(1) Mr. Y.K. Kan, pursuant to notice, will ask the following

questions :-

In the Budget Debate in March 1962 the then Colonial Secretary,

in reply to my criticism of the telephone service, undertook that Government would discuss with the Hangkong Telephone Company on the question of a more rapid expansion of its services to meet demand.

(a) Have these discussions in fact taken place and if so,

with what results?

(b) Has Government been informed by the Company of its

expansion programme and if so, is Government satisfied that this programme adequately meats with the present and future demands of the public for telephone serviosa”

(2) Mz. W.C.G. Knowles, pursuant to notice, will ask the following

questions :-

(a)

In his Budget Speech on 26th March, my Honourable Friend the Colonial Secretary said in regard to my suggestion for a manpower survey to cover the Colony's needs for all education other than primary :-

"There is a distinct danger here of overlapping with enquiries and assessments already being undertaken

May I ask what are the enquiries and assessmenta referred to by my Honourable Friend, by whom are they being undertaken, and by what date we may opeat the conclusione?

(b) In the speech to which I referred in my previous question,

my Hondurable Friend also said :-

(c)

"On secondary education we have set out sights, for

the moment, at providing in Government and Government- aided schools for 15% of the total primary school population."

I should be grateful if I could be informed how this figure of 15% was assessed,

May I be informed whether any enquiries as in train or proposed for an investigation of the Colony1a needs for vocational and pre-apprenticeship training and for teclmical training? If so, by what date are the answers expected; if not, does Government recognise the need for such an assessment and what steps, if any, are being taken to make it?

May I also be informed what facilities, other than the Technical Collage, exist or are being planned for vocational, pre-apprenticeship and technical training, and what steps are being taken to implement any such plans?