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Managers or District Officers on the
administration of each new town or district.
For the first time a specifically New
Territories! personality was appointed to
the Legislative Council. A sub-committee,
including strong leung Yee Kuk membership,
chaired by Sir Yuet-keung Kan, was appointed
to examine the vexed question of levels of
compensation for land resumed by the Government.
The strength of the Police was increased by
1,500, and a heat-radio network was introduced.
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The foregoing are only some of the major features
of a Government operating at full stretch over a very
wide field. In money terms these activities, and all
others provided for in the budget of 1977/78, represented
an increase of 24% in money terms over 1976 or 16% in real
terms. We propose to carry on this extraordinarily fast
pace of expansion this year with a further increase
estimated at 26% in money terms or 21% in real terms.
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The dust is now settling on the swingeing restrictions
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> imposed by the ELC on Hong Kong textile exports. Two facts
in particular emerged. The restrictions will pull back
Hong Kong's growth rate unless non-textile exports or
other earnings can be increased proportionately; secondly
it is clear that until the end of recession releases
Governments of developed countries from protectionist
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