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ISSUED BY GOVERNMENT INFORMATION SERVICES BEACONSFIELD HOUSE, HONG KONG TEL: 5-233191

S BY HE HE ACTING GOVERNOR SIR JACK CATER KBE JP AT THE

ING CEREMONY OF THE SIXTH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM OF THE

ATIONAL FEDERATION OF SOCIAL WORKERS AT THE MARYKNOLL NT SCHOOL ON 13TH JULY 1980

Madam Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen,

I have much pleasure in extending a warm welcome to

all participants in this Symposium, and in particular to

cur visitors from overseas.

Some of you may be visiting Hong Kong for the first

time: in spite of our size

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perhaps miniscule in comparison

to your own countries we are not exactly unknown or without

repute. We occasionally hit the World's headlines as we

did last year with the dramatic but tragic arrival of the Vietnamese

boat refugees: but it is our trade and our industry that

has made Hong Kong known throughout much of the World.

And there can be no denying the economic success of Hong

Kong due I should add not only to the good sense, drive and

flexibility of our business community, but largely because

we have a hard-working, versatile work-force. But economic

growth without social progress would produce a situation

where the great majority of the people remain in poverty,

while a privileged few reap the benefits of rising abundance.

And Hong Kong has not stood still in this vital section of

social progress, and I am sure that in your discussions, you

will learn a great deal about our very substantial expansion

of services to the public such as housing, education, medical

and health services and, of course, social welfare.

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