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The Civil Service
25.
The
continuing
influx of Vietnamese has imposed a
great
strain on the civil service as a whole, and not only
the Correctional Services
Department, the Police and the
Garrison who have borne
members of Our community realise how many departments are
involved in one way or another in receiving the arrivals,
processing them, feeding them, looking after them and
building, operating and guarding centrco for them. Many
civil servants have been working long hours in difficult
circumstances and under great pressure for much of the past
two years. They get little recognition for this, and a
great deal of criticism, both in Hong Kong and overseas.
They deserve better. I am sure Members of this Council
would wish to join me in recording appreciation for their
the main brunt. I doubt if many
efforts.
20.
But this is by no
means the only strain on our
civil servants. They have for many years played the
leading role in the government of Hong Kong. Inevitably
changed as our system of representative
developed. Civil servants have had to adapt
time when, like the rest of the
this role has
government
to
has
this change at a
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