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spare time to join correspondence courses

or other more flexible cources to gain higher

So we should set

qualifications and skills.

al

soon as

up the open education institution as possible. We should take over the temporary

in Mong Kok venue of the City Polytechnic once it moves

We can

out and,(use it as a venue for the open edu-

cation institution. This is the quickest

way to achieve our goal.

and ident

Sir, I welcome the Budget again. I support the I hope that pragmatic and enterprising spirit. my comments and suggestions would serve some constructive purposes. With these remarks, Sir, I support the motion."

ME Andrew WONG

Sir, the year before last at a similar debate

I paid my respects to the then Financial Secretary, Sir John Brembridge.

I spoke of

my inability to decipher Greek alphabets, but had the audacity to invoke the alphas and

Brave New World betas of Aldous Huxley's

and to venture into a brief discourse in pragmatic philosophy on the proverbial hen and egg problem, and on the fallability of we mortals, including you, Sir, and myself, and I do hope my of course Huxley's Mustapher.

hon, honourable colleagues will have read Huxley's

fantastic yet realistic version of

Brave

Sir, at

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New World and shun and reject it. Sir, last year's Budget debate I moved on to the more mundane aspects of the Budget. quoted Sir Y. K. Khan who chastised the Government for its conservative, hence underestimation of revenue, and I warned

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