1973-06-08 — Page 18

其二第張五第日八月五年丑発

WAH, KIU YAT PO

英中會考經濟及公共事務科答案

堅道英文書院主答

H.K.C.E.E. (English), 1973

Suggested Answers

for

Economic and Fublic Affairs: (Conventional Questions).

2. (c) Give an account of the

purposes and the main aspects of the work of the New Territ- ories Administration. In what

respects does the Heung Yee Kik contribute towards the administration in the New Territories?

(i) To maintain law and order

in the New Territories; to be responsible for the welfare of the villagers; to arbitrate when necessary in personal and family dis- putes; to develop the dis- tricts of the New Territori- es involving the construct- ion and repair of roada, drainage systems, play- grounds and buildings; to approve building plans, and to register documents and Jand instruments; to issue licences when they are required to issue official permits as a general form of raising public revenue; to advise and assist in the elections of village repre- sentatives; in achieving all these purposes, the District Commissioner in his administration of the New Territories, is assist- ed by five District

-9, each in charge of a district; the districte are Tsuen Wan, Sai Kung, Tai Po, Yuen Long and Islands; there is a Resident Magistrate to advise the District Commiss- ioner in legal matters and. to conduct hearings in each district from time to time; to advise and assist the District Commissioner is an advisory body known as the Heung Yee Kuk..

(ii) The Heung Yee Kuk assists.

and advises the District Commissioner in his admini- stration of the New Terri- tories; it represents the opinions and wishes of the villagers; it explains to the villagers government. policies to ensure mutual trust and understanding between the villagers and the Government; it carries out such tasks as assigned to it by the Governor or the District Commissioner from time to time; it helps to maintain good neighbour- ly relations among the villagers; it looks after the welfare of the villager - and it ensures that the villagers abserve tradition -al Chinese Customs as a chief means of upholding morality.

2. (a) What are the chief function

-s of the Port Health Service? What steps have been taken by the Medical and Health Services Department to control infection -s diseases, especially tuber culosis and cholera?

(i) The chief functions of the

Port Health Service are: to provide facilities for the vaccination and the issue of International Vaccination Certificates to those who intend to go abroad to. check the valid health certificates of ship passeng -ers before they are allowed to go ashore; to refuse passengers to land or to put them in quarantine if they are suspected of suffer -ing from a communicable disease; to give medical help to ships in the harbour and send free medical. advice to ships at sea; to enforce the International Health Regulations: to ensure that port and airport areas are free of communi- cable disease, i.e. to en- sure that Quarantine and Prevention of Disease Ordinance is not violated; and to exchange epidemiologi -cal information with the World Health Organization and numerous health regional bodies.

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(ii) precautionary measures

against infections diseases taken by the medical and Health Services Department are: the operation of a preventive programme which includes the provision of a vaccination programme at government maternal and child health centres; a general immunisation campai- en held every year in January and March; anti- measles campaigns are also held every year; schools are inspected from time to time by school health inspectors.. and if required immunisation of school children against the most common infections diseases is provided free; in the prevention of chloera routine sampling of night-

soil for cholera vibrio is carried out whenever an out- break of cholera is suspect- ed; people are advised now and then to observe personal, environmental and food hygiene; quarantine restrict -ions are always maintained when cases of cholera are reported to have occurred in neighbouring countries; the

Department, thus has to keep in close contact with the World Health Organization for warnings of outbreak of cholera in any part of the world; in the prevention of tuberculosis, government together with the Hong Kong. anti-Tuberculosis and m Thoracic Diseases Associat- ion and the Jung Bay-Medical Relief Council sponsors the tuberculosis control pro- gramme; BCG vaccination is given to babies within 72 hours of birth; people suffering from tuberculosis are given injections of Streptomycin twice weekly and high dosage Isoniazid tablets; the course of treatment although long usually lasting 18 months is effective; X-rays and laboratory tests are provid- ed for the public at all government general out- patient clinics at the cost of $1 per visit; patients suffering from tuberculosis. are not charged at all.

3. (a) What are the aims in the

field of adult education in Hong Kong? What courses and programmes does the Adult. Education Section of the Education Department organize? What other organisations provide adult education courses locally?

(1) The aims of adult education

in Hong Kong are: to give the adults an opportunity to receive the education. they have missed when they were young; to provide leisure courses to fill their time after work; to train their skill in various trades for better employment prospects; to provide class- es in the remote areas for, the illiterates to give ther a fundamental and elementary education with special refer -ence to their needs and interests; to provide class- es for the prisoners with a moral and civic emphasis ant also providing them with subjects of a practical nature; generally to provid a system of education from literary level to post- secondary studies.

(ii) the courses and programmes

are: a three-year post primary extension course; secondary school courses. leading to the Hong Kong Certificate of Education Examination; English course from elementary to post- Certificate of Education level; practical educationa' courses in woodwork, house- craft, sewing and kitting; courses for teachers of art music, handwork, woodwork, physical education, modern educational dance, modern mathematics and the teachin of English; a three-year Diploma Course in general arts subjects such as Chinese Literature, Phaloal phy, Sociológy, and English Language and Literature; ar courses with special empha- sis on the blending of education and recreation. (iii) other organizations that

provide adult education courses lobally are:

the

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Lutheran World Service. CARITAS, the Hong Kong University, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, the Morrison Hill Technical Institute, the Young Men's Christian Association, the Yong Womens Christian Association, and the Poly- technic.

3. (b) To what extent is Hong Kong dependent on other countries for its food supply? Discuss the various difficulties of farming in Hong Kong and suggest possible ways in which local agricultural production could be improved.

(1) As Hong Kong is essentially

a manufacturing centre, as only about 50 of our 404 square miles in the Colony are under cultivation, our farmers are unable to turn out sufficient agricultural produce to meet our require- ments; thus a large proport- ion of our supplies of agri- cultural produce has to be imported from abroad; true, our domestic supplies have increased greatly in recent years, so has our consumpt- ion of food. bearing in mind that our population today stands at 4.1 million; seven -toen per-cent of all. imports comprised food, chiefly fruit and vegetables live animals, rice and other cereals, fish and fish preparations, meat and meat. preparations and dairy products and eggs according to statistics for 1972; our second supplier of goods, China supplied us with 49 per cent of all food imports for 1972; the very fact that we have to turn from our entrepot status to a manu- facturing centre since 1952, shows how heavily we rely on other countries for our food supply; and thus we need our exports to pay for the import of food and other raw materials for our diver

se industries; in recent. year's the factory system in Hong Kong has developed and expanded by leaps and pounds and its high wages have been a continual 'source of attraction to young men and women living in the rural areas and on the boats, with the result that the light industry of Hong Kong has far over- ahadowed the primary product -ion; thus it is abundantly obvious that Hong Kong now relies on other countries for its supply of food more than ever before.

(ii) the various difficulties of

farming in Hong Kong may be summarized as follows:- the availability of sufficient arable land to make farming more lucrative and therefore more worth-while than our present concentration on light industry; efforts have been made to put more land under cultivation auch as introducing terraced farming and having addition- al land through reclamation or improved irrigation; but terraced farming gives a poor return and reclamation alone is unable to provide enough land; the constant threat of either typhoons or droughts; our farms are in capable of reaching optimum size to enjoy economies of scale; as an example primit- ive Chinese methods of farming are still implement- ed and the use of mechanical equipment is often discourag -ed as the farm fields are small; fruit cultivation is carried out on a very small scale and is again of little significance to our economy; as the stress is now on the provision of industrial training, it is difficult to expect in the years to come. Hong Kong is capable of producing its own farming experts to advise and assist on the development and expan -sion of farming in Hong Kong; farming tends to attract the higher-age groug and as our population is mainly made up of young people, most farms are under- standably short-handed; at the end of the 1971-72 financial year, statistics shows that only 5 per cent of our working population were employed in agriculture

forestry and fishing; thus the exact number of farmers

must be well below the 5 per

cent mark; the poverty or most farmers hinders the development of their farms and their traditional, independence discourages the acceptance of advice and assistance from anyone out- side their family circle. (iii) some possible ways to

improve local agricultural production; the introduction of courses on agricultural farming in the Hong Kong Polytechnic or the Morrison Hill Technical Institute to enable our farmers to enjoy external economies of scale; a greater emphasis on the use of mechanical equipment on the farms; an extension on government's provision, of loans to local farmers which should include farming machinery, in order to encourage the farmers to develop their farms; a greater diversification of crops grown; as already happening, there has been a steady increase in the production of vegetable, field crops and fruit trees; terraced farming should be encouraged; to prevent its giving a poor return, scient

ific methods of farming which includes the use of high-quality fertilizers should be employed; outlying islands should be developed and set aside for farming; transport facilities avail- able to local farmers shoulà be improved and extended to remote areas in the New Territories; modern irrigat- ion schemes should be imple-. mented in all areas in anti- cipation of droughts and in areas where there is poor or inadequate water supply; the provision of free facilities to educate the children of the farmers has been a step taken in the right direction by Government but such provision should be further strengthened; effective methods of insect pest con- trol should be introduced; planting schemes for water. conservation purposes should be carried out on a wider scale; government grants should be made available for needy rural farmers; the co-operative movement which is now available to the fishermen should be extended to the farmers for at least a trial period to test its....... efficiency; a training and resear h branch should be set up within the agricult- ure and Forestry Department which should enlist the

assistance of the food and agricultural organization of

U.N.0. all the time, in

that local farmers can

benefit from improved farm-

ing techniques.

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Anwer Siction & AND Section.

SECTION A (60 marka)

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(0)

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(b)

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In Hong Kong? Ste your son (Not choose 24g only)

i.

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Conducting new flyovers

1.

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Was OME of the following lettres volag as you new sad udeborn:

Echwed Law on Alice Lee, 1001 Prospe:ky Armose, Koelen.

The content of the latere should be about 75 words.

(1)

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When wading an ipmentre saference book, which you borrowed from the City Pak Library you found that ever plotems in the book had been cut out. Write a letter to the Senior Librarian reporting, yona discovery and pesting ways of preventing mach practiamn Set Kature.

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