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SING TAO likened the setting up of hundreds of betting shops to counter illegal Tse Fa gambling to a man raising a tiger to catch a mouse.
"Now the tiger has grown to become a menace before the mouse has been caught,” it added.
KUNG SHEUNG DAILY NEWS (12.6.76) said the Government's gambling policy was not aimed at controlling betting, but at monopolising it. There lay the path to self- destruction, it added.
The left-wing WEN WEI PO (11.6.76) said that as a result of Government gambling policy one in every four people in Hong Kong now placed bets on horses or dogs.
It likened the Government's policy of using betting revenue to develop welfare services to a man who "offers a coffin to a person he has just killed."
Holding a different view, HONG KONG DAILY NEWS (5.6.76) said a new-style $2 Mark Six lottery would attract some Tse Fa gamblers.
SUPPORT FOR LOCALLY-
PRINTED TEXTBOOKS
Four papers commented favourably on the possibility of having English textbooks edited and printed locally.
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WAH KIU YAT RO (9.6.76) said it was worth considering the idea, specially since Hong Kong had such a fine printing industry and there should not be any technical problems.
It said: "If textbooks are edited and printed here, their contents would be more suited to our needs."
WAH KIU added that this could open up new markets in South East Asia for our printing industry.
KUNG SHEUNG DAILY NEWS (9.6.76) said there would be many benefits from the idea, in particular cheaper textbooks for students.
"It would not be very difficult for the Education Department to work with specia- lists from the Hong Kong University and the Chinese University of Hong Kong to produce English textbooks," it said.
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SING TAO JIH PAO (11.6.76) suggested that the Government should re-print English textbooks and pay royalties to the original publishers for infringement of copyright.
WAH KU YAT PO (13.6.76) supported the Consumer Council's proposal that the two University presses should be invited to produce a new set of textbooks for Chinese and Anglo-Chinese primary schools.
It added: "It seems unlikely that the two Universities would over-price textbooks."
VIET REFUGEES "TREATED
BETTER THAN CHINA REFUGEES"
Nineteen Vietnamese refugees refused permission to land in Singapore arrived last week aboard the tanker Cree and were granted permission to stay for one month on humanitarian grounds.
Three editorials in non-communist papers contrasted this commendable treatment for Vietnamese refugees to that given to China refugees.
KUNG SHUNG EVENING NEWS (11.6.76) criticised the difference in treatment between refugees from Vietnam and China, and said that Hong Kong should give China refugees a "breathing space."
It said: "Refugees from the Mainland also need the same benevolent and sympathetic treatment and should be granted permission to stay here temporarily. Instead they are arrested and repatriated on the spot."
HONG KONG TIMES (13.6.76) said it was "inhumane" for the Government to indiscriminately deport Chinese refugees. It asked for a relaxed policy towards refugees with relatives here and those able to find jobs.
HONG KONG TIMES also criticised the proposed legislation under which illegal immigrants would be liable to prosecution even if they had stayed here more than two years.
SING TAO JIH PAO (11.6.76) described the Government's present repatriation policy as "a serious contravention of human rights."
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