27-FEB-1980 17:43
GOVERNMENT SECRETARIAT.
CONFIDENTAL
858 581 7058 P.17
would not make futile applications.
This is
one way of keeping down the number of applications.
The public will also be informed of the time
allowed for making applications, they could
thus make their applications in good time.
Government Public Enquiry Counters, numbering
51 and distributed throughout Hong Kong, will
be mobilised to answer enquiries on application
procedures etc.
(a)
Application method
The public will be invited to mail in their
applications. In this way, a stampede is unlikely;
and therefore the need to have extra hands
to deal with it will not arise.
(e)
Interview of applicants
The procedures are so designed that interviews
of applicants will take place only after the
applicants are short-listed and the necessary
personality checks completed (procedural flow
chart at Annex 2) Thus, only the minimum
number of applicants (i.e. potential successful
candidates) will be interviewed. Given the
set ceiling of the package, it is estimated
that no more than 50,000 principal applicants
will be interviewed in the first stage of the
Such applicants will be invited by
scheme.