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proposed to extend the vegetable marketing scheme to
Hong Kong Island.
20.
In view of its growing importance, the Directorate of Air Services has now become a separate
head of the Estimates, and additional funds have been included in order to enable it to provide satisfactory services for the increasing volume of air traffic which is now including Hong Kong in its itinerary.
21.
education.
Additional funds to a total of nearly three million have been provided for educational services. The Unofficial Members of Legislative Council have felt. that insufficient was being done to develop vernacular
An increase of twenty-two Assistant Masters and thirty-one Assistant Mistresses has now been provided for and the subsidy to the vernacular schools has been
increased by $510,000. A school meals' service has also been introduced at a cost of $1,320,000 with a view to
providing children up to the age of fifteen, who are in need of supplementary diet, with milk and biscuits.
22.
As you are already aware, a considerable
expansion in the Labour Office has been provided for.
The increase in establishment amounts to three Labour
Officers, one of whom will have special trade union
experience, one Lady Assistant Labour Officer and one Chinese Assistant Labour Officer. One of the Labour
Officers who has been appointed to one of these vacancies served in this capacity during the Military Administration as a military officer on loan, and he continued to serve until he left the Army and was appointed in a civil
capacity.
23.
Under the head "Miscellaneous Services" a sum of $250,000 has been inserted as a token contribution to
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