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Annual Report by the Director of Medical and Health Services for the year 1969-70. (To be published)

Annual Report by the Director of Broadcasting for

the year 1969-70. (To be published)

Annual Report by the Accountant General for the

year 1969-70. (To be published)

Mr Wilson Wang to ask:

Are any steps being taken by Government to discourage the

practice of begging and to redirect beggars to useful forms of employment and to protect children from being exploited as beggars?

Mr Wilson Wang to ask :

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Has Government any plan to suspend the issue of new licences to rickshaw carriers with a view to the gradual withdrawal of this obsolete type of transport from this busy city of ours and has any attempt been made to help them to find more productive employment?

Dr S. Y. Chung to ask :

Will the Honourable Director of Public Works give a progress

report on the Kowloon City and San Po Kong flyovers since he made the statement in this Council on 20th May this year?

Dr S. Y. Chung to ask :

Will Government inform this Council whether it has considered the introduction of a 30-cent and/or a 25-cent coin into our currency system and, if the answer is in the negative, would Government give its reasons ?

Mr Wilfred Wong to ask :

Has Government any plan to re-align the dangerous bend of 112 degrees on the main thoroughfare of Queensway near Naval Terrace?

Mr G. M. B. Salmon to ask:

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Will Government confirm that court proceedings have been taken,

and conviction obtained, against all prison warders who have been dismissed by the Commissioner of Prisons during 1970 for being involved in drug peddling offences in the prisons.

7 Mr H. J. C. Browne to ask :

Have Government any plans for obtaining outside views or setting up a Committee to advise on the general content of the Chinese and English programmes on Radio Hong Kong?

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Dr S. Y. Chung to ask me.

...In view of the great demand for cooked food stalls in the industrial districts of Kwun Tong and San Po Kong, has Government any plans for providing land and other facilities such as bazaars for such cooked food stalls in these and other industrial areas; and if so how soon will such plans be implemented ?

Mr Szeto Wai to ask :

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As regards Business Profits Tax, would Government say

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(a) what results have been achieved since it intensified its

measures against evasions,

and (b) during the last financial year, what amount has been recevered

following investigations and how many prosecutions have been pursued?

STATEMENT

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Mr R. M. Hetherington

GOVERNMENT BUSINESS

MOTION

Mr D. R. W. Alexander :

: Workmen's Compensation (Amendment)

(No 2) Regulations 1970

Workmen's Compensation (Amendment)

(No 3) Regulations 1970

It is hereby resolved that the Pleasure Grounds (Amendment) By-laws 1970, made by the Urban Council on the 3rd day of November 1970, be approved,

FIRST READING OF BILL

District Court (Civil Jurisdiction and Procedure) (Amendment)

Bill 1970