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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1989
WORK OF CIVIL SERVANTS APPRECIATED
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HE WAS HIM TO JOIN
IN
SERVANTS IN COPING
THE GOVERNOR, SIR DAVID WILSON, SAID TODAY (WEDNESDAY)
WISH SURE MEMBERS OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL WOULD RECORDING APPRECIATION OF THE WORK DONE BY CIVIL WITH THE INFLUX OF VIETNAMESE BOAT PEOPLE.
HOURS PAST TWO
SIR DAVID SAID MANY CIVIL SERVANTS HAD BEEN WORKING LONG IN DIFFICULT CIRCUMSTANCES AND UNDER GREAT PRESSURE FOR THE YEARS.
A GREAT DEAL OF DESERVE BETTER,"
AND "THEY GET LITTLE RECOGNITION FOR THIS, CRITICISM, BOTH IN HONG KONG AND OVERSEAS. THEY SAIL.
HE
SIR DAVID POINTED OUT THAT THE CONTINUING INFLUX OF VIETNAMESE HAD IMPOSED A GREAT STRAIN ON THE CIVIL SERVICE AS A WHOLE, AND NOT ONLY THE CORRECTIONAL SERVICES DEPARTMENT, THE POLICE AND THE GARRISON WHO HAD BORNE THE MAIN BRUNT.
"I DOUBT IF MANY MEMBERS OF OUR COMMUNITY REALISE HOW MANY
ONE DEPARTMENTS ARE INVOLVED IN
WAY OR ANOTHER IN RECEIVING THE ARRIVALS, PROCESSING THEM. FEEDING THEM, LOOKING AFTER THEM AND BUILDING, OPERATING AND GUARDING CENTRES FOR THEM, THE GOVERNOR SAID.
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"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 THIS ROLE HAS CHANGED
AS
OUR SYSTEM OF
REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT HAS DEVELOPED," HE SAID.
CIVIL SERVANTS HAD HAD TO ADAPT TO THIS CHANGE AT A TIME WHEN, LIKE THE REST OF THE COMMUNITY, THEY HAD THEIR OWN PERSONAL WORRIES ABOUT THE FUTURE.
"AS A COMMUNITY WE TAKE OUR CIVIL SERVICE FOR GRANTED. BUT.
OTHER FROM MY PERSONAL EXPERIENCE OF THE WORKINGS OF
I GOVERNMENTS, CAN SAY WITHOUT QUALIFICATION THAT HONG KONG IS WELL SERVED," SIR DAVID POINTED OUT.
DURING THE RAPID CONSTITUTIONAL CHANGES THAT WOULD TAKE PLACE
KONG WOULD IN THE NEXT DECADE, SIR DAVID SAID HONG
DEPEND ON THE CIVIL SERVICE FOR CONTINUITY AND STABILITY.
ENSURE
THAT IT REMAINS AS
"SO NOW, MORE THAN EVER. WE MUST STABLE AND EFFICIENT AS IT HAS ALWAYS BEEN, HE SAID.
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