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Tuesday, April 10, 1973

"Secondly, housing: a vastly expanded programme based on a new

concept and directed by a new unified authority with a single Government

department working to it.

Thirdly, the phased expansion of the social services so as progressively

to provide a system of social security, underpinned by a specially trained

cadre of professional social workers.

"Fourthly, the reconstituted Medical Development Advisory

Board will report by the end of July on plans for further development in the

next 10 years, including the enormous programme necessary to provide facilities

for the new towns and New Territories and to consolidate and improve what

has already been achieved in the urban areas.

Problems

"There are of course many other problems to be tackled. There are crime

and corruption to be mastered:, there is the problem of narcotics, the most

intracțible and baffling problem of all. There is the problem of our traffic and

our motor cars, the need for off-street parking, the need (within the Council's

own responsibilities) for proper markets for people who are now called hawkers,

and the need to co-ordinate the solution of these interconnected problems.

"Above all there is the need to maintain the expansion of the prosperity

of this city on which all else depends.

"Our plans for advance in the major fields I mention are already laid

or in preparation. If this effort is accompanied by decisive advances in the

field within the responsibilities of the Urban Council, and I know how determined

you are to achieve this, I think that once our plans mature, and inexorably this

will take time, we should find ourselves on the edge of really significant new

developments.

/Broadly