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Wednesday, February 13, 1974

On the qualification of Interpreters/Translators, he said they

would be trained in Mandarin and other spoken Chinese dialects; the usc

of Chinese as the medium of teaching in schools was being studied and

considered as a separate issue.

Ho strossed that the government was determined to use the

two languages for communication in the most effective way that could

be done

"I do not believe anyone nowadays finds himself seriously

inconvenienced in his communication with the government if he has a

reasonable command of Chinese or English," he said.

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