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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1990

TO

YEAR,

NOTING THAT ARRIVALS SO FAR THIS YEAR HAD DROPPED SHARPLY, LESS THAN ONE IN SIX OF THE NUMBER DURING THE SAME PERIOD LAST THE GOVERNOR SAID: "THE CAREFUL OPERATION OF OUR SCREENING PROCEDURES; IN VIETNAM; THE VOLUNTARY REPATRIATION SCHEME; THE PUBLICITY EFFORT

ALL GIVEN AND THE MANDATORY REPATRIATION FLIGHT LAST DECEMBER HAD

THE DAYS OF AUTOMATIC POTENTIAL BOAT PEOPLE AN UNAMBIGUOUS MESSAGE RESETTLEMENT THROUGH HONG KONG ARE OVER.'

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REFUGEES HE SAID THAT TAKING THE CAMP POPULATION AS A WHOLE

BEEN THERE HAD

A NET AND PEOPLE WHO DID NOT HAVE REFUGEE STATUS

FIRST YEAR THIS WAS THE OUTFLOW OF OVER 2,700 SINCE LAST OCTOBER. SINCE 1986 WHEN THE NUMBERS IN HONG KONG HAD ACTUALLY GONE DOWN.

ON TARGET. WE "THE RESETTLEMENT PROGRAMME FOR REFUGEES IS

AND SOME 4,500 HAVE RETURNED TO THE EXPECT SOME 7,000 TO LEAVE THIS YEAR. VIETNAM OVER THE PAST 18 MONTHS, THAT IS SINCE THE BEGINNING OF VOLUNTARY REPATRIATION SCHEME," SIR DAVID SAID.

MORE PERSONAL CONTROL OF LIFE QUALITY IN THE NEXT DECADE

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AND 19909, THE

THE DESIRE FOR MORE PERSONAL CONTROL OVER THE INDIVIDUAL'S THE FAMILY'S QUALITY OF LIFE WILL BE A KEY TREND IN THE GOVERNOR, SIR DAVID WILSON, SAID TODAY (WEDNESDAY).

PROGRESS

THE GOVERNOR POINTED OUT THAT THE SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC

HAD CREATED NEW THE 1980S, DURING PARTICULARLY MADE,

WE HAD ASPIRATIONS.

"PEOPLE ARE NO LONGER CONTENT SIMPLY WITH A

PROVISION.

BASIC LEVEL OF

KONG, THEY FOR THE

"IN AN INCREASINGLY PROSPEROUS AND EDUCATED HONG EXPECT A HIGHER QUALITY OF SERVICE AND MORE OPPORTUNITIES INDIVIDUAL TO CHOOSE PARTICULAR TYPES OF SERVICE," HE SAID.

NOTING THAT THERE WOULD BE, QUITE RIGHTLY, A DEMAND FOR CHOICE, MEDICAL SOPHISTICATED SIR DAVID SAID FAMILIES WOULD LOOK FOR MORE CARE; FOR OPPORTUNITIES TO BUY THEIR OWN HOMES; AND FOR ACCESS TO GOOD PRIVATE SCHOOLING.

RANGE OF THAT

ADDING FAMILIES

HOWEVER, HE POINTED OUT THAT THE COST OF THIS WIDER SERVICES COULD NOT ALL BE BORNE BY THE TAXPAYER,

MEANT THAT HIGHER INCOMES GREATER CHOICE AND INCREASINGLY PAY FOR SERVICES WHICH WENT BEYOND THE BASIC LEVEL.

MUST

/REFLECTING ON