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Thursday, September 27, 1973

SOCIAL WELFARE BOTH AN AIM AND A METHOD

The Director of Social Welfare, Mr. K.W.J. Topley, said today

that social welfare is both an aim and a method.

"The aims of social welfare are closely bound up with the

methods we use to get there," he said,

It was significant, he said, that the same word social welfare

was used both for what we do and what we are trying to arrive at.

Speaking at the luncheon meeting of the 100 Club at the Hong

Kong Hilton, he said that real welfare means getting as many people

involved as possible .... "people with wider interest, concern for others,

and working with other people."

Mr. Topley said: "If it's everybody's welfare we want then all

must get into the act or we will be using a very cold blueprint that does not

reflect what we really want.

"Vielfare isn't just a job for the government but for all sorts

of people."

It is for this reason Mr. Topley said that the Social Welfare

Five Year Plan was worked out with the Hong Kong Council of Social Service

on the videst possible basis of consultation getting as many people

involved as possible.

He congratulated members of the 100 Club on recognising a need

by taking up the task of helping the victims of viclent crimes at about

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the same time that government's own scheme was launched.

He suggested