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9. Or without some economic analysis and planning section? .
10. Is there any merit in maintaining the present formula that
the Hong Kong is "backed" or "guaranteed" by sterling?
B. Social
11. Why is education in Hong Kong so underdeveloped compared,
for example, with Singapore?
12. How long can we expect to go on having no revolting students,
no widespread feeling that authority is nearly always wrong,
etc.?
13. Why not legalise most types of gambling and free the police
from a heavy burden?
14. Should Hong Kong move towards a more liberal view on
homosexuality, pornography, death penalty, flogging, abortion,
censorship?
15. Are the hawkers really a serious problem, apart from their
obvious nuisance to traffic? If they are, can the Hong Kong
Government not solve the problem by spending money on new
market sites?
16. Has Hong Kong anything to learn on the "anti-pollution" front,
e.g. in preserving the beaches and islands?
C.
Structure of Government
17. Is the Colonial Secretariat a useful organ? Would it be
better to break it up with the idea of giving Departments
more direct responsibility and access to the decision-taking
bodies?
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