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CONFIDENTIAL

HONG KONG GOVERNMENT QUARTERLY REPORTS: POINTS TO NOTE

Item IV on the provisional agenda for the third meeting of the Standing Committee to Monitor the Planning Paper is "Points arising from the most recent batch of quarterly progress reports from Hong Kong". These reports cover the period from 1 November to 31 January and are, inevitably, somewhat out of date.

Security Branch

1.

Activities include:

(a) plans to improve control over TRIAD gangs in Hong Kong. Proposals to amend existing legislation are being considered;

(b) an up-dating of contingency plans to deal with a large- scale influx of immigrants from China in an emergency;

(c) arrangements for the orderly repatriation to Hong Kong of Hong Kong belongers deported from The Netherlands; and

(a) consideration of measures to improve facilities for the treatment of drug addicts, as well as the establishment of a central register.

Environment Branch

2.

(a) 133 acres of land at Lye Mun barracks were taken over from the Army in accordance with the 1975 Defence Costs Agreement. The balance is due to be taken over and the site will then be developed as a public park;

(b) notice of the intention to designate three country parks was published in December 1976; and

(c) provision is being made for one swimming pool complex per 250,000 people and for District Recreation Services (Appendix D, paragraph 20 of the Planning Paper).

Civil Service Branch

3. Efforts are being made to bring certain Civil Service staff unions into some form of central consu tative machinery. Professor Turner will be looking into the Government's labour relations machinery during the second stage of his Study of Labour Relations.

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