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Monday, March 26, 1973

policy.

Time, he said, had fully illustrated the wisdom of the Authority's

Turning to the new Authority, Mr. Robson disclosed that as long

ago as 1958, a special committee on housing had recommended that a separate

Housing Department should be set up and that all Government funds for public

housing should be expanded under one co-ordinated programme for housing,

re-housing and resettlement.

It also proposed that the activities of the Housing Department

and the Resettlement Department should be co-ordinated under one Housing

Authority, he said.

"Although these particular recommendations were not adopted by

the Government at that time, those who made them will be gratified to

know that they have, at last, come to fruition, and that thereby the new

Authority will be better equipped for its task than the old," Mr. Robson said.

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