HB 14/58
Curtis Green Building,
to May, 1968.
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Thank you for your letter of 22 April with which you enclosed a letter and newspaper cutting from lips. Elsie Elliott in Hong Kong.
The Hong Kong Government fully recognise tirt, in the circumstances of Hong Long, hawkers provide an essential service to the community. At the same time, some control over them is necessary, to ensure that they do not cause obstruction or nuisance to the general public. The unarmed Hawker Control Force, which is the Urban Council's own force, exists to help the police in the duty of control and it would ertainly not be in anyone's interest to abolish it. The Chairman of the Hawkers' Select Committee of the Urban Council has, however, undertaken to considor Mrs. Elliott's specific suggestions about larger stalls, etc.
Mrs. Elliott's allegations that corruption is protected by Government policy is simply not true. The fact is that Government does not deny that corruption exits and is making the most strenuous efforts to eradicate it. The corruption of public servants, particularly those in depart- ments such as the police, whom members are in continuous contact with the public, in treated es a very serious problem. Indeed the disciplinary provisions relating to corruption in the public service in Hong Kon are probably tougher than those obtaining in any other dependent territory. They include a requirement, unparalled elsewhere, namely, that if an officer is shown to be living beyond his official salary or to be accumulating funds out of proportion to his
NIGEL FITHER, EBO., HC, MP.
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