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8. S.C.M. POST, TUESDAY, JANUARY 28, 1969
South China Morning Post
Mr Royle's 'at home'
N the face of it. Mr On the subject of youth, Youth While we
gave way to we are realistic
home" yesterday was hard- establishment of a ly earth-shaking; but then Department. nobody expected it to be. agree that it is time pious What does matter is the platitudes precedent it established. action, To be sure, few Chinese- enough to see a Youth De- few, at any rate, of the partment as aiming a little Some- "little people," the poor, too high too soon. the illiterate, the otherwise thing must be done, how- underprivileged-called on ever, so perhaps the answer Mr Royle. This is under- may be to tackle first the standable. Mr Royle was problem of employment: giving the people of the say with a central "youth Colony something beyond advisory secretariat." their experience: the op-
Ideally, this should not portunity to lay real or imagined grievances before merely be a clearing-house, a man whom, even if he has but should seek to give boys no direct say in the Govern- and girls sound advice on ·
careers, AS ment of the Colony, can their future certainly carry valid com- well as providing a central of information on plaints back with which to pool nag officials in Whitehall. university courses, full and It is, in fact, exactly be- part-time, on all forms of cause Mr Royle is not part extra-mural studies, and on of the Hongkong Govern- apprenticeships. Education, ment that his "at home" of course, was the other was so welcome. It is to problem mentioned by Mr He was referring be hoped that the next time Royle.
to technical a similar opportunity for specifically grievance-airing is given by education, in which field, a visiting Member of Par- he said, the Government liament that the many and appeared to be lagging. articulate spokesmen for This has been said before, the Colony's underprivi- but it does no harm to say leged will make more use it again. Unless more at- tention is given to it, Hong- !of it.
Two of these problems kong may find itself unable which Mr Royle tackled to compete in the demand- while he was here concern- ing world of modern indus- ed youth and education, try and trade.
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