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P.R. 31

HONG KONG GOVERNMENT

NFORMATION SERVICES

DAILY INFORMATION BULLETIN

SUPPLEMENT

Monday, May 8, 1972

OPENING OF VOCATIONAL TRAINING EXHIBITION

Speech by H.E. Governor

The following is the full text of a speech given by His Excellency

the Governor, Sir Murray MacLehose, at the opening of the Vocational Training

Exhibition at the Kei Heep Secondary Modern School, Wong Tai Sin, today

(Monday, May 8):

"Ladies and Gentlemen,

We have heard from Mrs. Wong of the progress made since the first

exhibition three years ago.

"In these years Hong Kong's industrial activities have diversified

and fresh demands for trained personnel and fresh opportunities for those

with the necessary training have been created.

"I wonder how many parents have registered this new development.

I wonder how many still plan the education of their children as if our community

and its economic needs and opportunities had remained unchanged over the

past 50 years.

I

"The facts are that one-quarter of a million students are in grammar

schools and only about 10,000 in technical and vocational programmes.

am sure that all of us here are in agreement that this imbalance must be

corrected.

/"Government's