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slight upturn in exports at the turn of the year.
A Hong Kong fearful of China, or of its end of year
accounts might not have got over this difficult ground
so easily so far.
4. I will return to the Police and to the EEC
negotiations, but the main, if less newsworthy, and
I hope less ephemeral, feature of the year, has been
the rapid progress made on the social and domestic
These can be summarised as follows:·
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A greater volume of more substantial
labour legislation was enacted or implemented
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than in any previous year of Hong Kong's
history. The fields covered included
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holidays with pay, siemoss benefit, severnce
pay, protection of wages, worknes' compensation
and four major sets of industrial safety
regulations. The exclusion of able-bodied
unemployed from eligibility for public
assistance was cancelled.
Universal free and compulsory secondary
education was announced.
It will become
universal and free as from this Autumn, and
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the employment of children under 15 years of
age will also be prohibited. To implement
this programme 52 schools have been completed
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