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HE

ECONOMY, SOCIETY.

"WE

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1991

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POINTED OUT THAT

HAD THE GOVERNMENT TRANSFORMING HONG KONG FROM A THIRD WORLD TO A

DELIVERED

ON

THE

FIRST WORLD

PUT OUR FAITH IN FREE MARKETS, LOW TAXES, LEAN GOVERNMENT AND WE GOT IT RIGHT," HE SAID.

ENTERPRISE

AND

MEANWHILE, THE GOVERNMENT HAD DELIVERED ON SOCIAL HOUSING, HEALTH AND EDUCATION ALL BUILT, AND NOW HEAVILY THROUGH REVENUE GENERATED BY GROWTH IN OUR ECONOMY RATHER TAXES,

PROGRAMMES, SUBSIDISED,

THAN HIGH

SIR

ALSO SAID DAVID

HAD DELIVERED THE GOVERNMENT INFRASTRUCTURE WITH THE TRANSPORT AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS THE OF THE WORLD.

ON

ENVY

ON

"OF COURSE MUCH MORE REMAINS TO BE DONE AND THERE ARE BLEMISHES OUR PHYSICAL AND SOCIAL LANDSCAPE.

THE COMMUNITY "BUT SO MUCH HAS BEEN ACHIEVED. LOOK AROUND YOU.

BELITTLE TRULY PROUD OF THOSE ACHIEVEMENTS AND MEMBERS SHOULD NOT AS SOME HAVE DONE.

IS

"NOR SHOULD WE BE INFLUENCED TOO MUCH BY THE PROPHETS OF IN OUR MIDST.'

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BUT CERTAINLY, SIR DAVID CONTINUED, HONG KONG PEOPLE WERE GLOOMY ABOUT THIS PLACE OR INDEED ABOUT THEIR GOVERNMENT.

DOOM

NOT

OVER THE PEOPLE

THE CHIEF SECRETARY SAID OPINION POLLS CARRIED OUT LAST SIX MONTHS SUGGESTED THAT CONSISTENTLY 80 PER CENT OF THE OF HONG KONG WERE SATISFIED WITH THE GENERAL SITUATION IN HONG KONG.

THE POLLS ALSO SHOWED THAT OVER 50 PER CENT WERE SATISFIED WITH THE PERFORMANCE OF THEIR GOVERNMENT AND ONLY 32 PER CENT DISSATISFIED.

"BY

STANDARDS THOSE FIGURES INDICATE ANY GOVERNMENTS IN THE WORLD WOULD ENVY," HE NOTED.

A CONFIDENCE MOST

HAVING SAID THAT, SIR DAVID SAID, ALL GOVERNMENTS MADE MISTAKES INCLUDING THE ONE IN HONG KONG.

" AND

I HOPE IF WE MAKE MISTAKES WE WOULD HAVE THE

COURAGE TO

ADMIT IT,

"BUT WE GET PLENTY RIGHT TOO," HE SAID.

GOVERNMENT

CARRY ON

COMMUNITY PREPARED TO

THE

TO WAS SIR DAVID SAID IF THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE TERRITORY WITH THE VIGOUR WHICH THE EXPECTED, IT WOULD NEED THE SUPPORT OF PEOPLE WHO WERE JUDGE ISSUES ON THEIR MERITS AND SPOKE OUT ON THE GOVERNMENT'S BEHALF WHEN THE ADMINISTRATION GOT THINGS RIGHT.

/WHEN WE