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to health. Moreover a clean environment breeds care to preserve it, just as
tolerated litter begets indifference. We all therefore attach the greatest importance
to the Council's further work, and wish them success in their endeavours to persuade the public to make the extra effort in their residential blocks and in the streets so that our city will not just be cleaner than most others, but will
be second to none.
CONCLUSION
Hon. Members, this finishes my review of what your Government has done is doing and proposes to do. It reflects my renewed confidence in continuing
prosperity, and new determination both to maintain it and to use it for social
progress.
Recovery has made it possible for us to get back on to the targets for our social programmes, with all the hope that this implies for eliminating the main deficiencies in our city by the early '80s. This represents a new cahallenge to the public service which must implement them. I know its members will rise to it. They constitute a fine service, second to none I have known; this chance to change gear, put frustrations behind them, and get on with the job is exactly what they want.
You will have noted that to these programmes I have added a new and special emphasis on labour legislation and social welfare. The recession is behind us, but do not let us forget its lessons. The mutual comprehension between the shop
floor and the board room was a credit to H.K.
But nevertheless the recession
hit the shop floor much harder than the board room. A new effort now to provide further safeguards for the work force and low income group is therefore timely,
right for our society, and but common justice.
It is your Government's aim to build into our society a balance. On the one hand there must be reasonable freedom and opportunity to acquire wealth and increase incomes at all levels, and because of our need to retain and increase investment to employ our population to a comparatively greater extent than in other communities. On the other hand there must be ease of mind for all people through certainty that
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