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INTRODUCTION

Honourable Members,

firat the This is

time

I

have

had

the honour

of

for

the contribution

I do so, after reporting to you on the work of the Government. Бейае deep

of respect and

this the well-being of

a

to

months in office, with only 5 months in admiration

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

2.

aa

I

activities

It will I think become evident to Honourable Members

of the Government that review the philosophy and objectives remain unchanged,

its

even if we aro

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

difficult

ссолощіс

climate.

responsive to the public will.

importance to those public bodies which give expression to that

will.

It

to

leave

the

industrial,

commercial

and

aims financial sectors free and unfettered to compete in domestic and world markets, regulating only whore the orderly conduct of business, fair treatment of the work force and the good name of Hong Kong so require. Moze positively it aims to provide the infrastructure and the environment in which modern techniques

and good

industrial relations can flourish and initiative and can Our economy hard work bring their rewarda, Only thua

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

plans to use as efficiently as possible the manpower and money which are entrusted to us.

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