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QUESTIONS
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Mr K.S. Lo to ask:
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I understand that by the end of this year there will be four or five
airlines operating jumbo jet flights in and out of Kai Tak Airport. In view of the unsatisfactory and inadequate taxi service in the area, what plans has the Government in mind for transporting the large number of arriving and departing passengers to and from their hotels expeditiously?
Mr Y. K. Kan to ask:
Is Government aware that its Departments usually insist on members of the public, with whom they correspond, quoting the Departments' references but fail to quote the reference used by members of the public? Is this Government's policy?
Mr P. C. Woo to ask:
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Does Government intend to amend the Corporal Punishment Ordinance (Chapter 222) so as to include the possession of offensive weapons among the offences attracting corporal punishment?
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Mr P.C. Woo to ask:
Will Government inform this Council the method of delivery of parcels
by the Post Office to receivers?
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Dr S. Y. Chung to ask:
Based on the information available, will Government inform this
Council
(1) the estimated per capita gross national product at current prices for Hong Kong in the two years of 1969 and 1970 separately;
(2) the estimated average annual growth rates for the per capita
GNP and the total GNP during the last five years; and
(3) the estimated share contributed by the manufacturing industry
and the tourist industry respectively towards the GNP?
Mr Y.K. Kan to ask:
The Hon. Financial Secretary in reply to a question put by me in
this Council on the 5th November 1969 said that he found it difficult to gauge the urgency of making laws to deal with mutual funds and that he had no evidence at that time of any fraud having taken place in connection with mutual funds. Does he recall that I had then suggested that prevention was better than cure? In the light of recent developments is he in a position now of gauging the urgency of making such laws?
Mr Szeto Wai to ask:
Can Government say when it is anticipated that the Container
Terminal at Kwai Chung will be ready for operation, and what plans has Government to ensure that our urban roads are adequate to cope with the ensuing heavy transport?
Mr Szeto Wai to ask:
In view of the many serious fires recently, has any action been contemplated by Government to deal with those very old and crowded tenement buildings of timber floor and stair construction since they constitute fire hazards and therefore are dangerous?
Mr Szeto Wai to ask:
What measures has Government taken in recent years to prevent congestion at the typhoon shelters at Yau Ma Tei and Causeway Bay at the approach of typhoons, and will Government explain why the construction of the typhoon shelter at Shau Kei Wan has taken so long?
Mr Wilson Wang to ask:
What is the present number of Primary Six pupils in all the schools
and how many aided and assisted Form One places will be available for them this September?
Mr Y. K. Kan to ask:
Will the Government make a statement concerning the provision of
free primary education urged by me in the Budget Debate in March last year?
GOVERNMENT BUSINESS
MOTIONS
WIDOWS AND ORPHANS PENSION ORDINANCE
The Financial Secretary:
It is hereby resolved that the Widows and Orphans Pension (Application) (Amendment) Regulations 1970, made by the Governor in Council on the 22nd day of December 1970, be approved.
FACTORIES AND INDUSTRIAL UNDERTAKINGS ORDINANCE
Mr R. M. Hetherington:
It is hereby resolved that the Factories and Industrial Undertakings
(Amendment) Regulations 1971, made by the Commissioner of Labour on the 22nd day of December 1970, be approved.
No comments yet.
Private notes are available after approval.