§ 37. Mr. Teelingasked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he will consider starting a hardship fund of two or three million Hong Kong dollars to help the older people likely to be displaced by the closing of the Hong Kong dockyards and who have not been offered equivalent jobs elsewhere, on the lines suggested to him by the Hong Kong Civil Association.
§ Mr. Lennox-BoydAfter careful and sympathetic consideration of the Association's suggestion the Governor has decided not to adopt it, because the6W Social Welfare Department already provides adequate facilities for relieving distress and because revised redundancy terms which were announced on 3rd June will particularly help the older men with long service about whom the Association is most concerned. The main task now is to enlist the support of private employers to supplement the efforts of Government in providing new jobs for redundant dockyard workers. The Governor has invited the Association to co-operate in this.