4000001 P.R.H. 7
HONG KONG GOVERNMENT
NFORMATION SERVICES
DAILY INFORMATION
BULLETIN
Wednesday, March 29, 1972
GOVERNMENT'S INTENTIONS "EXCITING AND UNEXCEPTIONABLE "
Financial Secretary Replies To Unofficial Members' Criticisms
The Financial Secretary, the Hon. C.P. Haddon-Cave, today described
Government's intentions as "exciting as well as unexceptionable".
"This would be a very remarkable Government if our performance
was not open to criticism," he added.
He was replying at the resumed Budget debate in the Legislative
Council to points raised by the Hon. Sir Yuet-keung Kan in his "frank and
hard-hitting" speech on March 15.
The Financial Secretary said there were bound to be lags in the
adaptation of existing policies to changing circumstances for the civil
service, and the consultative process which surrounded it, would always
tend to be preoccupied with wide ranging responsibilities,
These responsibilities extended from the maintenance of law and
order to education; from the collection of statistics to the conduct of
international commercial relations; from the oversight of the fishing and
agricultural community to the management of a necessarily complicated land
policy; from the provision of ar adequate water supply to the housing of
40 per cent of the population; and from the provision of various local
government type services such as street sweeping and firefighting in unusual
conditions to a whole range of medical and health services which were available
free to the lower income groups in the community.
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