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Thursday, November 2, 1972
Government should study in depth the actual road congestion caused by containers as opposed to their equivalent in ordinary trucks.
A much more thorough survey shold be made of the extra cost and the inconvenience to exporters and importers if the concept of door-to-door delivery is disallowed.
Rather than an all-embracing ban on curbside parking, Government should investigate the possibility of selective "parking" and "non parking" areas.
Improvement in road facilities such as the Kwai Chung Terminal access flyover should be hastened to cope with
the increased vital traffic rather than attempting to curb progress by restrictions.
Referring to technical education and industrial training, Mr.
Williams said both must have a "very high priority" among Hong Kong's many
pressing needs.
He said the problems and requirements of industrial training were
quite different to those of technical education and this must be kept in
mind when the Board of Education was reconstituted.
He called for careful consideration of a recommendation by the
Industrial Training Advisory Committee that the direction of industrial training
should be in the hands of an Industrial Training Council.
Speaking on sports generally, Mr. Williams said that to raise standards,
top trainers must be brought to Hong Kong and ways found for paying for this.
"These
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