am certain that the public a large expects us to find the
necessary staff, and accepts that overseas recruitment
is necessary at the present time, particularly in the fields.
I have mentioned.
22.
I should now like to table some statistics on the
number of local and overseas officers in the civil service,
in the hope that these will aid objective discussion of
the subject.
23.
*
Table I shows that the total number of overseas
officers has increased over the past 8 years from 1,859 to
2,868, while the number of local officers has increased from
76,116 to 112,623. This means that the proportion of overseas
*
officers in the Civil Service is almost the same now (2.5 per
cent) as it was eight years ago (2.4 per cent). I expect this
proportion to rise to about 2.6 per cent over the next year or
two, primarily because of the need to recruit more staff from
i overseas to enable us to proceed on schedule with major
public works, housing, the new towns, and development of
the Police Force.
Table I
/Table II..
Total Numbers of Local and Overseas Officers in the Hong Kong Civil Service
Local
as at
No.
of total
Overseas
%% of No. total
Total Strength
1.1.70
· 76,116'
1.4.78
97.6%
112,623 97.5%
1,859 2.4%
77,975
2,868 2.5%
115,491