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COMMENT

THERE was

interesting.

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a lot of talk in the

Legislative Council yesterday about the report of the Industrial Training Advisory Committee.

This committee has handed its report to the Government.

The report contains a host of significant recommendations.

No doubt, we'd all be better off in the future if there was some swift action on the recommendations right now.

But will we get swift action? It doesn't look like it.

There's that turgid Government phrase saying the report will require "careful study by many

and organisations

Government departments."

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Let's get on with it

Goodness! Five years of solid work already institutes, have been put into the report.

Now we are to have more pontification, more debate, probably more changes, more objections, more dilly-dallying.

Okay, so action has been taken on some parts of the report.

Is this enough when Hongkong is coming under more intensive industrial challenges than at any time in its history?

The answer must be NO. There can never be enough done.

The report recommends four new technical

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The Government has already shown indecision over these vitally needed places of learning.

There is no time for this sort of indecision. The Government has a duty to lead the way.

Industrialists have a similar duty to forge ahead at the Government's side to help us produce better educated and more skilled

men..

We have a report. We have the views of men who know.

Let's get on with the job.

Let's be the hare and not the tortoise.

RECEIVED IN REGISTRY NO.5X 11. MAY 1971

HICK 9/

Holiday

services allright: Sir Hugh

EMERGENCY Goverment services for public holidays were adequate. the Colonial Secretary, Sir Hugh Norman-Walker, told the Legislative Council yesterday.

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