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Wednesday, February 14, 1973

"It is necessary to reconcile a suitably widely-based membership

with the need to keep the Authority's size down to manageable proportions, in

the interests of speed and efficiency," he added.

WIDE PUBLICITY FOR DISABILITY AND INFIRMITY ALLOWANCE SCHEME

All publicity measures will be used to bring home to those in need

the message that the Government's new severe disability and infirmity allowance

scheme is to be operative from April 1 this year.

The Hon. F.K. Li, Director of Social Welfare, gave the Legislative

Council this assurance today in reply to the Hon. Mrs. Mary Wong Wing-cheung,

who had asked if the Government would publish a pamphlet in the two languages

describing the conditions of eligibility in detail.

Mr. Li said publicity measures being contemplated included the press,

radio, television, and possibly cinema advertising, all taken to ensure that

the scope of the scheme became known to those who might benefit from it.

In addition, the Social Welfare Department was arranging for 30,000

copies of a Chinese leaflet to be printed - with the first consignment expected

to be ready in two weeks.

The English leaflet, intended mostly for those working in the social

welfare field, would be textually longer, and so would not be ready until later

in March. Two thousand copies would be printed initially.

"As with similar leaflets on the public assistance scheme," Mr. Li said,

"they will be distributed widely through all Government departments which have

frequent dealings with the public, and through the volunteer social welfare

agencies."

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