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Monday, April 2, 1973

NEW FAMILY PLANNING CENTRE FOR YUEN LONG ON THE WAY

Lady MacLehose Commends F.P.A. Work

A new centre will be set up in Yuen Long by the Family Planning

Association to provide residents with family planning and maternal and child

health services.

Speaking at the foundation stone laying ceremony of the centre at

11 a.m. today (Monday), Lady MacLehose commended the Association for its

"vital contribution to the family health and welfare of our community.

She also acknowledged the achievement of voluntary bodies "in

pioneering the acceptance and practice of family planning among eligible women."

Family planning, she said, had played an important role in helping

Hong Kong to maintain "a standard of living which is the envy of many in this

part of the world."

The following is the full text of Lady MacLehose's speech:

Madam Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen,

I am delighted to be able to participate this morning in the laying

of the foundation stone of a very worthwhile project, the Yuen Long Family

Planning Centre which is to be built on this site.

I agree with you, Madam Chairman, that the population problem is a

universal one and indeed particularly applicable to Hong Kong in view of the

very high density of population. Family Planning is therefore a subject which

is of the utmost importance to us in Hong Kong. We have been fortunate enough

so far to have achieved and maintained a standard of living which is the envy

of many in this part of the world. As has been said before the necessity is to

lay stress on quality rather than quantity.

The magnificent

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