WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9 1988
+
33
RESIGNATIONS FROM CIVIL SERVICE STEADY
*
RESIGNATIONS FROM THE
SECRETARY (WEDNESDAY).
FOR
THE
1.89 PER CENT OF THE STRENGTH OVER A
MR
CIVIL
SERVICE,
CIVIL SERVICE WERE STEADY, AVERAGING FIVE YEAR PERIOD, THE DEPUTY
SAID TONY EASON,
TODAY
AND THERE
WAS NO REASON
ΤΟ
DOUBT
THAT
FINAL
FIGURES THAT TREND,
OF
RESIGNATIONS FOR THE 1987/88 FISCAL YEAR WOULD VARY FROM
HE SAID.
ON COMMENTING
IN
A
NEWSPAPER
THE FIRST NINE
CIVIL HAD
MR EASON WAS
THAT REPORT
SERVANT RESIGNATIONS
MONTHS OF 1987/88 INCREASED BY 34 PER CENT COMPARED TO THE FULL 12 MONTHS OF 1986/87.
WHILE NOT DISPUTING THE CONCLUSION OF THE ARITHMETIC MR EASON SAID THE RESIGNATIONS HAD TO BE TAKEN IN THE CONTEXT SIZE OF THE CIVIL SERVICE AS A WHOLE.
INVOLVED,
OF THE
WAS
IN 1982/83, FOR EXAMPLE, THE STRENGTH OF THE CIVIL SERVICE
PER CENT. 154,034 AND RESIGNATIONS TOTALLED 3,943, REPRESENTING 2.56
TN
FOUR YEARS
1.93 PER CENT, THE SUCCEEDING RESIGNATIONS 1.98 PER CENT, 1.56 PER CENT AND 1.43 PER CENT RESPECTIVELY.
THIS
WERE
FIVE
THAT 13
OF JANUARY MR EASON CONFIRMED THAT FROM APRIL 1987 TO THE END YEAR THERE HAD BEEN
(INCLUDING RESIGNATIONS 3,334
ΤΗ 3,336 RESIGNATIONS IN DIRECTORATE LEVEL STAFF) BUT LIKENED THAT 1984/85 WHICH ALSO INCLUDED FIVE DIRECTORATE STAFF. HE NOTED DIRECTORATE LEVEL STAFF RESIGNED IN THE FOLLOWING YEAR.
"THE NUMBER OF RESIGNATIONS THIS YEAR IS BY NO MEANS
UNUSUAL,
HE SAID.
1
NEW MEDICAL CLINIC OPENS IN SAI KUNG
**
KUNG
BE WILL
FURTHER TODAY
MEDICAL SERVICES AND FACILITIES IN SAI UPGRADED WITH THE OPENING OF A NEW CLINIC IN THE DISTRICT (WEDNESDAY).
KUNG
TOWN, IS
THE SHAW
THE NEW CLINIC, LOCATED IN MAN NIN STREET IN SAI NAMED AFTER MADAM MONA FONG, DIRECTOR OF SHAW BROTHERS (HK) LIMITED,
OF THE IN APPRECIATION
$3 MILLION
BY DONATION MADE FOUNDATION TOWARDS THE CAPITAL COST OF THE PROJECT.
/MADAM FONG