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for an improved environment and better development

of new and more sophisticated industries. To

make this possible, an ambitious expansion of road

and rail links is under construction or planned.

These things are not mere gleams in

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a planner's eye. They represent the rounding

off of a long process of social administration

which has gradually lifted Hong Kong from the

misery of the '50s to its present situation, and

which should achieve normalcy by the early '80s.

With prudent husbandry of the Colony's resources,

and external catastrophe in world trade excepted,

I am satisfied the finance for these considerable

developments can be found.

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This year of renewed prosperity and

confidence, and of recapitulation and rethinking of

Government policies and programmes, included some

developments of importance:

a)

membership of the Legislative Council

was substantially expanded to provide

articulate voices to speak for the

workers and underprivileged - a role

hitherto largely (though not exclusively)

played by official members. As a

leader writer put it after a particularly

lively debate in which the liberals

had the best of it: "the industrial

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