354 HONG KONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL — 9th February 1972.
Oral Answers
MR QSWALD CHEUNG:-Sir, is it really true that the establishment of a new hydrofoil station in Kowloon would involve a duplication of staff? Would not some passengers be drawn away from the present terminal, so that some of the present staff could be used in Kowloon? Is there not a fallacy in the thinking of the Government departments concerned?
MR ROBSON:-I don't think there is any fallacy, Sir. Duplication does not necessarily mean doubled in that sense. (Laughter). In other words, if you have a station which has one man operating it and then you have a second station. you require one other man which is doubling the number. This could be followed through in other patterns, because I don't think it is right to say that if you double the number of stations half the number of people can look after each of the stations. So I don't think there is a fallacy. I do agree though that you do not require perhaps twice the number of staff at each station.
MR CHEUXG:-If it is not a fallacy, Sir, is it a further development of Parkinson's Law? (Laughter).
MR ROBSON:-I am afraid I would require notice of that question, Sif! (More laughter).
Government business
Motions
WHITE PAPER ON THE URBAN COUNCIL
THE COLONIAL SECRETARY (SIR HUGH NORMAN-WALKER) moved the following motion:-
That this Council welcomes the White Paper on the Urban
Council which was tabled on 13th October 1971.
He said:-Sir, the White Paper on the future of the Urban Council was laid on the table of this Council on the 13th of October last year and was published for general information at that time. Since then I have noted a certain lack of any very clearly defined or generalized reaction to the proposals in the White Paper. However, the members of the Urban Council have considered the Paper in detail and their chairman has been good enough to forward to me their comments. I understand, too, that both the elected and the appointed members of
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