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HONG KONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL - 2nd October 1969.
[MR WONG] Motion
tion of society as a whole and not too much emphasis should be laid on the feelings of a few teddy boys. I believe that youth should be treated with great understanding but to let those who lightly take the life of another person get away with nine months or three years in a training centre is an unwise practice and the ultimo in permissiveness.
(c) Aid to drug addicts
However hard the Society for the Aid and Rehabilitation of the Drug Addicts tries, the aid to drug addicts is not enough and government should consider a larger scheme to help those people who are unable to help themselves.
(d) Aid to the mentally retarded and defective
Facilities for the mentally retarded and defective are far from adequate and in spite of the pending completion of the new hospital at Lai Chi Kok consideration should be given by government to enlarge the scope of the care of the mentally retarded and defective.
In a lighter vein I would like to tell a true story. When I visited Castle Peak Mental Hospital a few years ago on a JP visit, I was wearing a bush shirt and quite naturally was taken by an inmate as a doctor. He talked to me, tugged at my shirt, followed me around and finally said, "Please get me out of here, I assure you I am just as sane as you are."
(e) Social security for the aged
My honourable Friends, Mr FUNG and Mr TZE* have spoken at length about the young, may I say a word about the aged. As the old family structure and tradition are gradually being eroded, aged people amongst certain types of families face a bleak future. Therefore, consideration should be given to the establishment of and encouragement for more homes for the aged. We should pay more attention to the aged who can no longer work.
(†) Markets
Government is to be congratulated on reviving the market programme. The market has proved to be the most economic institution through which a very high percentage of our population obtain, through
obtain, through the housewives, the daily necessities of vegetables, fish, meat and poultry. With the newer and larger markets in each area, hawkers could be cleared from the adjacent streets when they will once more
* Pages 22 and 26.
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