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INTRODUCTION

Honourable Members,

This is the

time fizet

have had

the honour

reporting to you on the work of the Government.

the contribution for

to the well-being of

only 5 months in office, admiration

of

I do so, after

with a deep sense of respect and

this

territory made by my distinguished predecessor, and also by all I in turn am now privileged to those who have worked with him. count them as colleagues in a common enterprise.

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its

even if we are

It will I think become evident to Honourable Members

that the · Government of I review

activities the philosophy and objectives remain unchanged, having to pursue them, at least for the present, in a much more The Government ains to be To this end, it attaches great

difficult

есоповіс

climate.

responsive to the public will.

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เ

leave to

the

industrial,

commercial

our

and

importance to those public bodies which give expression to that will.

ains financial sectors free and unfettered to compete in domestic and world markets, regulating only where the orderly conduct of business, fair treatment of the work force and the good name of Hong Kong so require. More positively it aims to provide the infrastructure and the environment in which modern techniques and good industrial relations can flourish and initiative and

can Only thus hard work bring their Yowarda,

economy

But it adjust continuously to changing circumstances and grow. aims, too, to be a Government concerned with the welfare of the people. It seeks to provide within the resources on which we can reasonably call, services such as housing, social welfare, health, education and recreation so essential to the well-being of individuale; and all this in a society in which the rights of the individual are respected and law and order can prevail. use as efficiently as To these ends, the Government plans to possible the manpower and money which are entrusted to us.

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