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Monday, May 1, 1972

Mr. Rowe described the role being played in the social welfare

field by those participating in the seminar both inside and outside

the Government

as of "crucial importance", because social welfare

services were expanding in Hong Kong, and expanding fast.

"New tasks and responsibilities are being taken on, both by the

Government and the voluntary sector," he explained. "In practical terms,

the responsibility for ensuring that these services are implemented

properly, and their effectiveness monitored properly, rests very substantially

on you."

Management Skills

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they should realise the

He stressed for the benefit of officers from his own Department

that with the existence of an adequate management structure at the top --

which they could reasonably aim at reaching

importance of developing management skills as well as professional skills,

because the former were going to become "at least as important as the

latter "t

Mr. Rowe thanked the Government Training Division and the Extra-

Mural Department of the Chinese University for the "generous and ready

co-operation" that had made the seminar possible.

Mr. T.C. Lai, Head of the Extra-Mural Department of the Chinese

University, also spoke at the opening ceremony. In the chair for today

was Mr. Perry Siu, of the Extra-Mural Department, Chinese University.

The seminar will continue for the rest of the weck, and will end next Monday.

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