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Question No 8

Reply by the Hon. R.G.B. Bridge, OBE, JP, Secretary for Education and Manpower to a Question from Hon HUI Yin-fat in the Legislative Council on 7 January 1987

Question:

In recognition of the contribution the elderly

have made to our society and to promote respect

for them, will Government consider designating

the Monday following the annual Festival for

the Elderly, which takes place on the third

Sunday of November, to be a public holiday by

utilizing one of the undesignated statutory

holidays for this purpose?

Sir,

Let me say straight away that I am sympathetic to

any proposal designed to promote respect for the elderly.

However, having looked very carefully at this particular

proposal, I am afraid that it does give rise to problems.

At the practical level, it is

it is difficult to see

which of the existing holidays provided for under the

Holidays Ordinance or

the

Employment Ordinance could be