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(para. 10 of (3) 1)
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"I propose that each Colonial Dependency should first draw up a plan covering all the objects of development and welfare expenditure which are thought desirable, without attempting in the initial stage to limit this to the exact amount of the resources estimated to be available. It is essential if sufficiently comprehensive planning is to be achieved that on the one side there should be taken into account all the resources likely to be available, whether from Colonial Development and Welfare assistance, from local revenue sources or public loans or from any other souree, and on the other that the plans should include all likely major developments on the expenditure side, including important increases in the recurrent expenditure of Departments dealing with public health, agricultural and other development services as well as strictly capital expenditure. This comprehensive plan should, however, be realistic and the proposals included in it should be graded in a few broad priority categories, so that whatever amount of money is in fact available can be devoted to those developments which are regarded as of the highest importance.
(para. 14 of (3) 1 in 1893/45)
"In the preparation of plans, and indeed in all work connected with them, it is of the first importance that the interest of the inhabitants of the Dependency should be aroused and their opinion consulted and their co-operation secured wherever possi- ble. A great part of the value of the assistance given by the new Act will be lost if the developments financed or assisted by it are regarded merely as an activity of "Government/ and not as the concern of the ordinary people of the country. The establishment of Development Committees containing unofficial representation is one obvious means of ensuring due public parti- cipation, and such Committees have I know already been formed in many of the Colonial Dependencies."
On the re-establishment of Civil Government in Hong Kong, Heads of Departments were required to prepare and submit such draft schemes for Development and Welfare as they considered suitable for inclusion in the Colony's comprehensive plan, and in July, 1945, a Development Committee was appointed by His Excellency the Governor to examine the schemes so submitted. The constitution of the Committee was as follows!
Hon. Mr. T.M. Hazlerigg, C.B.E., M.C. (Acting Chairman) The Financial Secretary
The Secretary for Chinese Affairs
The Director of Medice" Services
The Director of Public Works
The Director of Education
Hon. Mr. A. Morse, C.B.E.
Hon Dr. S. N. Chau
Mr. M. W. Lo
Mr. Ng Chak-wa
Mr. R. A. Bates (Secretary)
At the time of the Committee's appointment the Secretary for Development, Dr. G.A.C. Herklots, was absent from the Colony. On his return in September, 1946, he assumed the chairmanship, the Hon. Mr. Hazlerigg continuing to serve as a member. Mr. Ng Chak-wa has since been compelled by ill-health to resign from the Committee and the following additional members have been appointed:
Mr. C. J. Colinan
Mr. Kwok Chan
Mr. Dhun Ruttonjee
Dr. A. M. Rodrigues
W/Car. S. E. Faber, A.F.C.
The Terms of reference of the Development Committee are as follows:
"To examine and make recommendations to Government in respect of the draft schemes which have been put forward by Heads of Departments in connexion with the allocation to this Colony of the sum of £1,000,000, under the provisions of the Colonial Development and Welfare Act, 1945.
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